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Skill premium: What caused the ‘mismatch’?
Roy, Satyaki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Increasing returns to skill is often attributed to the rising relative demand for skilled workers driven by advancement in skill-complementary technology. In the context of India this paper argues that fluctuations in skill-premia in different sectors are primarily because of the shift in the...
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Analyzing Washington state's welfare program design, workfirst
Axelsen, Dan; Snarr, Hal W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
variety of objectives including skills training, temporary subsidized employment, and mentoring. WorkFirst’s objective is to … pressure on wage rates, which then in turn reduces welfare dependency. We analyze the working decision as it is related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654245
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Structural change in employment in India since 1980s: How Lewisian is it?
Roy, Satyaki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
change in employment in India that results from the exclusionary nature of the growth process hardly approximates the … categories in non-agriculture and argues that the shift in employment basically expands the ‘reserve army of labour’ in the …
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