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Social and cultural tables and special tables for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes
1981
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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225768
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Trade Openness and the Demand for Skills: Evidence from Turkish Microdata
Meschi, Elena; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm-level data over the period 1980-2001. In a dynamic panel data setting using a unique database of 17,462 firms,...
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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobility for Industrial Innovation
Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the private sector on the subsequent innovative performance of the firms they join. We use data on the population of Danish firms and their R&D workers for the period 1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021639
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The Elite and the Marginalised: An Analysis of Public Spending on Mass Education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite...
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Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities: The Role of Employment Quota
Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …
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The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India
Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …
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Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation during India's Economic Boom
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653984
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Do Employment Quotas Explain the Occupational Choices of Disadvantaged Minorities in India?
Howard, Larry L.; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the …
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