Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which …

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …

This paper examines how Nepal’s 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women’s decisions to engage in employment. Using … three waves of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, we employ a difference-in-difference approach to identify the impact of …

Using detailed survey data from Nepal, this paper examines the determinants of child labor with a special emphasis on …

database from Nepal. There are two novel features of our analysis: firstly we allow for heterogeneity among private schools, by …

Scheduled Tribes – on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the … Constitution of India. Using data from state and household level surveys on fifteen major Indian states, we find that at the …