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Wages and Employment in the Liberalised Regime: A Study of Indian Manufacturing Sector

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Expansion of earning opportunities and increment in earning levels are dual objectives of policymakers in developing countries. The structural adjustment programme in India tried to ensure both through higher growth targets, and manufacturing sector has seen the most sweeping changes. It is now...

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State Intervention and Labour Market in India: Issues and Options

Majumder, Rajarshi; Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

State interventions into Labour policies in India are directed towards ensuring both job security and income security. In this paper we look at likely impact of such policies. The laws are found to serve the organised workers primarily while large masses of unorganised workers are without any...

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Earning Differentials Across Social Groups: Evidences from India

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Earning differentials in labour market leads to multidimensional aspects of deprivation and disadvantage. While the ‘deprived’ are excluded from participation in society, such exclusion may also cause deprivation. In economic terms, disparity in labour markets has far-reaching consequences...

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Tertiarisation of the Indian labour market: a new growth engine or sending distress signals?

Mukherjee, Dipa; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Tertiarisation of labour market has globally been associated with economic progress. But in developing countries, labour market deformities may push people into service economy out of distress also. This paper examines the tertiarisation process in Indian labour market to bring out the reasons...

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Unemployment among educated youth: implications for India’s demographic dividend

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

on the contribution of youth to national product. India at present suffers from remarkably high educated unemployment and … skill. Huge youth unemployment, especially educated unemployment is the surest way to social tension, unrest, and unlawful … formation and unemployment among youth in India, focusing specially on educated unemployment. We find that current skill …

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Globalisation and Employment: A Prelude

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

seems to be depressing the labour market. Unemployment is rising, both absolutely and as proportion of labour force …

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An income gap theory and its effects on unemployment and economic growth

De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

An Income Gap Theory and it effects on Unemployment and Economic Growth By Drs Kees De Koning Abstract An income gap is …

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The United States: An Economic Balance Sheet Analysis

De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The U.S financial crisis started in October 2005. The level of new home starts would have replaced the total owner occupied housing stock in 37 years. Much faster than desirable. Mortgage interest rates also went up in same month. In 2006 mortgage lending went on unabated, but housing values did...

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About winners and losers: the Euro Area example

De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In economic life, like in all walks of life, there are always winners and losers. The losers are the unemployed, often the young, the low-income earners, the individual households who lose their home due to repossession for non-payment of debt, the households who have no or a low savings level...

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The evil force of borrowing and the weakness of Quantitative Easing

De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

The U.S. housing market crash in 2007-2008 was not caused overnight by an over-supply of new homes that could not be sold. It was caused by the new money flows into mortgages ever since 1998. What changed in 1998 was that mortgage funds were not only used for building new homes at a price in...

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