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Can Social Security Boost Domestic Consumption in the People’s Republic of China?
Dewen, Wang - eSocialSciences - 2010
€™s Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC faces a difficult path before it can reform and … improve its social security system and provide basic support for all of its people. The unemployment shock has caused rural … social security would not only mitigate unemployment shocks in the short term, but it would also guarantee individuals and …
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Gender Dimensions: Employment Trends in India, 1993-94 to 2009-10
Mazumdar, Indrani; N, Neetha - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper examines some of the explicit as well as not so explicit trends in relation to women’s employment in India from 1993-94 till 2009-10 and argues that they indicate a grave and continuing crisis in women’s employment under liberalization led growth. Trends in the...
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The Challenge of Employment in India: An Informal Economy Perspective Volume I - Main Report
NCEUS, NCEUS - eSocialSciences - 2012
India is perhaps the first country to set up, at the national level, a commission to study the problems and challenges being faced by what in India is called the unorganized economy - or the informal economy as it is usually referred to internationally – and recommend measures to the...
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Creating Youth Employment in Asia
Dev, S. Mahendra - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper examines the labour market characteristics for adults and the entire population. Then it analyses challenges and opportunities in labour market for youth. Next, the paper discusses the existing and needed policies for taking care of the challenges in overall and youth labour markets....
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Technology Intensity and Global Competitiveness: Issues in Labour Cost and Employment
Mitra, Arup; Sharma, Chandan - eSocialSciences - 2014
Productive employment generation is an important objective in most of the developing countries this motivation has probably induced firms to adopt capital intensive techniques. Based on the country specific data on the manufacturing sector in select developing countries the argument of high cost...
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Unemployment Burden and its Distribution: Theory and Evidence from India
Motiram, Sripad; Naraparaju, Karthikeya - eSocialSciences - 2014
To develop a measure of unemployment that takes into account both the level and intensity of unemployment and that … can also be decomposed into mean and distributional components and contributions to unemployment by various subgroups of … the population. To apply this measure to understand unemployment in India using data from National Sample Surveys on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945241
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The Youth Employment Crisis: A Call for Action
eSocialSciences; International Labour Organisation ILO - 2013
Resolution and conclusions of the 101st Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva, 2012. [ILO].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945251
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The Impact of NREGA on Rural-Urban Migration: Field survey of Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu
Jacob, Naomi - eSocialSciences - 2013
Migration can act as a negative force. It can lead to distress migration, which is what happens when people have to go to cities to find work because they cannot survive on what they can earn in their own villages. Can NREGA be used to curb rural urban migration? [CCS Working Paper No. 202].
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Kerala-The Land of Development Paradoxes
George, K.K.; Kumar, N. Ajith - eSocialSciences - 2012
An attempt has been made to understand the paradoxes of Kerala's development like the state's per capita consumer expenditure is more than the per capita state domestic product. But the nutritional intake is low. [CSES working paper 2]....
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Economic and Social Dynamics of Migration in Kerala, 1999-2004 Analysis of Panel Data
Rajan, S. Irudaya; KC, Zachariah - eSocialSciences - 2007
Panel studies based on the same set of sample households or individuals at two points of time 5 or 10 years apart are time consuming and are relatively rare in social science research. Such a method, however, was used in the South Asia Migration study (SMS) conducted by the Centre for...
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