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Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality

Das, Mausumi; Chakraborty, Shankha - eSocialSciences - 2010

Available evidence suggests high intergenerational correlation of economic status, and persistent disparities in health status between the rich and the poor. This paper proposes a novel mechanism linking the two. Health human capital is introduced into a two-period overlapping generations model....

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For Love or Money? Motivating Workers

Naeem, Saima; Zaman, Asad - eSocialSciences - 2013

. Workers not only compare their wages, as pointed out in previous literature, but also compare the socio-emotional resources … provided by their employer. This provides important evidence against one-dimensional comparisons of relative wages relevant to …

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Determinants of On-the-job Search in India: Macro and Micro Evidences

M, Krishna; Paul, G.D Bino - eSocialSciences - 2012

The main aim of this paper is to examine two core features of on-the-job search in India. First, based on National Sample Survey (NSS) 66th round unit level data, we identify the factors influencing the decision of the employed to engage in search activity. [LMRF Discussion Paper 14]....

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Allotment of Ration Cards and Ration to the Families Migrating from Drought Areas

eSocialSciences - 2013

Government resolution (GR) by Maharashtra government for migrant workers from drought areas. [Government of Maharashtra]. URL:[https://www.maharashtra.gov.in/Site/Upload/Government%20Resolutions/English/201302261456548906.pdf].

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Globalization and China's 'Race to the Bottom' in Labour Standards

Chan, Anita - eSocialSciences - 2006

China and employment in the low-wage industries is expanding, wages of Chinese workers are not rising. In fact, China is … study of China's hukou system and how it affectes the wages of migrant workers, the paper shows how the Chinese hukou system … can keep wages down more easily than can be done in Mexico. [George Ernest Morrison Lecture on Ethnography, 2002, The …

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Final Report of the Task Force on Domestic Workers: Realising Decent Work

Labour, Ministry of; Employment MoL&E - eSocialSciences - 2011

This report presents the results of the deliberations of the Task Force. Section one provides the background. Section two presents the status of the implementation of March 2010 recommendations contained in the First Report. It then describes the deliberations of the Task Force regarding the...

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Productivity Response to a Contract Change

Jayaraman, Rajshri; Ray, Debraj; VÂ´ericourt, Francis de - eSocialSciences - 2014

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change. The setting is a tea plantation in India. The activity in question is tea-plucking, the output from which is measurable and contractible. Payments to pluckers consist of a baseline wage, along with piece rates per kilogram of...

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Jobs and Livelihoods Mapping the Landscape

IKF, IRIS Knowledge Foundation - eSocialSciences - 2014

The Indian labour market is charcaterised by abysmally low participation of women in the labour market, enormity of low wage informal employment, and scarcity of decent regular wage employment. The collection of essays discuss the labour market scenario in India from different angles,...

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Gender Pay Gap in the Formal Sector: 2006 - 2013: Preliminary Evidence from Paycheck India Data

Varkkey, Biju; Korde, Rupa - eSocialSciences - 2013

This report aims at quantifying the magnitude of gender-based disparities that women face in the organized sector of the Indian labour market, and track their progress over time. The extent of the gender pay gap is measured on various parameters such as age, educational qualifications, industry,...

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Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle

Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - eSocialSciences - 2014

The effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages are analysed over the course … of the agricultural production cycle. It is shown theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the …-stage wages. Indian household panel data describing early-season migration and district-level planting- and harvest-stage wages …

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