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Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification among Dalits in Rural India
Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …
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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S.N.; Sen, Kunal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
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