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Prospects of Employment Growth in Andhra Pradesh

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The present paper examines the changes in work participation rates, participation rate in education and the growth of employment, and explores the prospects of employment growth in the state of Andhra Pradesh (India) in the scenario of declining population growth which acts as a limiting factors...

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Workforce in Indian Information Technology (IT) Industry : Exploring NSS Employment and Unemployment Survey

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The present paper examines the situation of software workers in India wherein the paper focuses on the disparities across sub-population distinguished socio-economic and regional characteristics and also attempt is made find the determinants of IT workforce within the household level...

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Child Labour and Schooling in a Histrical Perspective: The Developed Countries Experience

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

In the light of the present debate on the problem of child labour in developing countries, it is the need of the hour to look into the experiences of those developed/industrialised nations. The high incidence of child labour in the industrialised nations during the last two centuries, especially...

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Child Labour and Educational Deprivation of Children : A Review of Literature

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper reviews the existing literature to bring out the broad understanding with respect to determinant of child labour and educational deprivation of children.

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Caste and Rural Youth in India: Education, Skills and Employment

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

employment and unemployment. In this respect we have used the unit record data of three NSS rounds: 50th (1993-94), 61st (2004 …

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Access to Health Care in Andhra Pradesh : Availability of Manpower

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

NSS Employment and Unemployment Survey. …

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Structural unemployment

Herz, Benedikt; Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

Structural unemployment is due to mismatch between available jobs and workers. We formalize this concept in a simple … costs across segments generate structural unemployment. We estimate the contribution of these costs to fluctuations in US … unemployment, operationalizing segments as states or industries. Most structural unemployment is due to wage bargaining costs …

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Selective hiring and welfare analysis in labor market models

Merkl, Christian; Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

predictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are much larger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result, optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …

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How important is the intensive margin of labor adjustment?

Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

Using new quarterly data for hours worked in OECD countries, Ohanian and Raffo (2011) argue that in many OECD countries, particularly in Europe, hours per worker are quantitatively important as an intensive margin of labor adjustment, possibly because labor market frictions are higher than in...

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Skill-biased technological change and the business cycle

Balleer, Almut; Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008

Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased towards skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We construct a quarterly skill premium from the CPS and use it to identify skill-biased technology shocks in a VAR with long-run restrictions....

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