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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 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 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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Existing models of equilibrium unemployment with endogenous labor market participation are complex, generate … procyclical unemployment rates and cannot match unemployment variability relative to GDP. We embed endogenous participation in a … variabilities but also generates strongly countercyclical unemployment rates. With some wage rigidity the model also matches …
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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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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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seems to be depressing the labour market. Unemployment is rising, both absolutely and as proportion of labour force …
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replacement rates or initial tax rates are high, while no increase in unemployment occurs when institutions are ‘employment …This Paper explains the divergent behaviour of European and US unemployment rates using a job market-matching model of … the labour market with an interaction between shocks and institutions. It shows that a reduction in TFP growth rates, an …
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replacement rates or initial tax rates are high, while no increase in unemployment occurs when institutions are "employment …This paper explains the divergent behavior of European an US unemployment rates using a job market matching model of … the labor market with an interaction between shocks an institutions. It shows that a reduction in TF growth rates, an …
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youth unemployment is the surest way to social tension, unrest, and unlawful activities. Hence to understand India …
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