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International trade and manufacturing employment outcomes in India: A comparative study

Sen, Kunal - 2008

of methodological approaches - factor content, growth accounting and econometric modelling. We also compare India …

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The Puzzling Decline in Rural Women's Labor Force Participation in India: A Reexamination

Neff, Daniel; Sen, Kunal; Kling, Veronika - 2012

Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why …

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Is caste destiny? Occupational diversification among dalits in rural India

Gang, Ira; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2011

The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …

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Is caste destiny? Occupational diversification among dalits in rural India

Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-su - 2012

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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship

Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012

The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...

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Caste, ethnicity and poverty in rural India

Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …

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Moving out of the bottom of the economy? : constraints to firm transition in the Indian informal manufacturing sector

Raj, Rajesh SN; Sen, Kunal - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 10, pp. 1-20

The predominant type of firms in developing countries is small family firms and the self-employed in the informal sector. Very few family firms make the transition to larger firms employing non-family labour. In this paper, we examine the reasons for the low presence of firms employing...

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