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This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
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An important constraint in studying intergenerational education mobility for India is the lack of data that contain … father-son matched data that is representative of the entire adult male population in India. Using this father-son matched … data, we study the extent of intergenerational mobility in educational attainment in India since 1940s and provide an …
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This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model applied to a panel of 22 two-digit manufacturing industries...
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contribution to the overall integration. Finally, we investigate the links between globalization and labor market in India …
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This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the … increasing effects of tertiary education suggests that wage inequality in urban India may increase further in the near future as …
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The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the … in India. The findings of this paper are that the increase in the wage premium has come mostly from demand shifts in …
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India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set – the India Human Development Survey, 2005 – to …
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India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional …
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incidence and cost of private tutoring at different stages of schooling over the last two decades in India. As private tutoring … private tutoring is not a new phenomenon in India: a significant proportion of students at each stage of schooling took …
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In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following …
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