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Educational and occupational mobility across generations in India: social and regional dimensions

Ray, Jhilam; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Educational and Occupational Mobility is a cherished dream for all groups of people, more so for those who are at the bottom rungs of society. However, it is often seen that upward mobility is concentrated among the socially well-offs leading to divergence in educational attainment and...

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Workers on the move: migrated labour in post-reform india

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Migration is a universal phenomenon. From time immemorial women and men have travelled in search of better living. Historical nomadic instinct of man had been in tune with his necessities – more endurable climate, adequate water supply, fertile land and general availability of resources have...

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Unemployment among educated youth: implications for India’s demographic dividend

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Researchers claim that India is poised for reaping demographic dividend and leapfrog to a higher level of income-employment situation utlising the relatively larger share of youth or working age persons in total population. However, the outcome depends on the contribution of youth to national...

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India’s demographic dividend: opportunities and threats

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Demographic transition creates a small window for countries to leverage their demographic dividend and leapfrog to a higher level of income-employment situation. This opportunity comes in the middle stage of demographic transition when the population pyramid shows signs of maturity and bulges in...

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Productivity Growth in Small Enterprises - Role of Inputs, Technological Progress and 'Learning By Doing'

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) in an overpopulated developing economy serve the dual role of job-creation and shifting the occupational structure. However, their contribution to the overall health of the economy are being questioned on grounds of low productivity and economic viability....

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Emergence of Knowledge Society: The Indian Scenario

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Knowledge Society is characterised by recognition of knowledge as main source of efficiency, competitiveness, and economic growth. Since late 1990s, a large segment of mainstream media and economists have been obsessed with the continued run of ‘Knowledge Economy’ in OECD countries and its...

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Tertiarisation of the Indian labour market: a new growth engine or sending distress signals?

Mukherjee, Dipa; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Tertiarisation of labour market has globally been associated with economic progress. But in developing countries, labour market deformities may push people into service economy out of distress also. This paper examines the tertiarisation process in Indian labour market to bring out the reasons...

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Intergenerational mobility in educational & occupational attainment: a comparative study of social classes in India

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Discrimination against specific ethnic groups transcends the boundary of current generation and perpetuates across future generations as well. This is manifested as low Intergenerational Mobility in terms of both Education and Occupation in developing countries in general, and among specific...

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A quarter of a century: mobility and stagnation in India’s rural labour market

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Transformation of the countryside from agrarian subsistence economy to non-farm monetised economy is propagated as a precursor of growth and development and involves shifting of labour from farming to off-farm activities. India has started its journey in this path but has a long way to go....

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Paternal migration, child labour and education: a study in brickfield areas of West Bengal

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Children accompanying their migrant parents for seasonal employment are the most “at risk” group of all in terms of … children. The socio-economic condition of the migrant workers and their children in the kilns, the problems faced by these … migrant children in accessing educational facilities, and the incidence of child labour have been explored. Effectiveness of …

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