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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...
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...
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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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Employee referrals and the inter-industry wage structure
Kugler, Adriana D. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1997
fill jobs. Moreover, unemployment rates are higher in industries which use employee referrals more extensively. This paper … search is, however, not necessarily efficient. Congestion externalities in referral search imply that unemployment would be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772463
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Employee Referrals and Efficiency Wages
Kugler, Adriana D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Many workers believe that personal contacts are crucial for obtaining jobs in high-wage sectors. On the other hand, firms in high-wage sectors report using employee referrals because they help provide screening and monitoring of new employees. This Paper develops a matching model that can...
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Hiring And Firing Costs, Adverse Selection And The Persistence Of Unemployment
Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …
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Hiring and firing costs, adverse selection and long-term unemployment
Kugler, Adriana D.; Paul, Gilles Saint - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000
In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572594