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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260234
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836599
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837066
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259645
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616915
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A Tale of Two Neighbour Economies: Labour Market Dynamics in Spain and Portugal
Castillo, Sonsoles; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
Spain and Portugal are two neighbour economies which share many characteristics. Spanish unemployment is more than … double Portuguese unemployment, however. In this chapter we resort to Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) techniques to …, their effects on unemployment were much more long-lasting in Spain than in Portugal. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661486
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India’s demographic dividend: opportunities and threats
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
youth unemployment is the surest way to social tension, unrest, and unlawful activities. Hence to understand India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259727
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Employment and Wages 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837347
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Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach
Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial investment by testing the hypothesis that marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this effect is stronger for women. We show that married individuals have a higher propensity to invest in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123954