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'Bed and Board' in Lieu of Salary: Women and Girl Children Domestics in Post Partition Calcutta (1951-1981)
Chakravarty, Deepita; Chakravarty, Ishita - eSocialSciences - 2010
The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is, domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta. [CESS WP 84].
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Rebuilding China’s Social Safety Net: Why Governance Matters
Pei, Minxin - eSocialSciences - 2005
China has adopted a wide-ranging program of pension reform since the late 1990s. The new pension system has replaced the pre-existing enterprise-based system. This paper analyzes the background of this reform, surveys the progress of China’s pension reform, describes its principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341781
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China: Pension Provision and Pension Administration
Wang, Shaoguang - eSocialSciences - 2006
In the long term, there is little doubt that China will be better off with a single and unified pension insurance system covering the whole country, just as most of other countries do. In the short term, however, it is feasible for China to establish only a province-based pension system, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341839
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Private (Occupational) Pensions in China: A Note on Recent Developments
Hu, Yu-Wei - eSocialSciences - 2005
China, as the most populous country in the world, is ageing rapidly. Against the background of dramatic demographic changes in this century, China’s current pension system is badly structured, and not able to cope with the rapid ageing population. The Chinese government is well aware of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487668
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Growth of Asian Pension Assets: Implications for Financial and Capital Markets
Hu, Yuwei - eSocialSciences - 2012
Pension assets have seen rapid growth world-wide over the past decades, although they suffered large losses during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. Such growth is notably due to both structural and parametric pension reforms since the 1980s. In the Asian region too, the pension...
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State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Executive Summary
Prakash, Padma; IKF, IRIS Knowledge Foundation - eSocialSciences - 2013
The State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills developed and produced by IRIS Knowledge Foundation, Mumbai on a commission from the UN-HABITAT Global Urban Youth Research Network of which it is part, is a first attempt to pull together a data and knowledge base on and...
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Book Review: Women Workers, Unite!
Bhowmik, Sharit - eSocialSciences - 2007
Review of Ela R Bhat's 'We are Poor, But So Many Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Human Cost of Making Bricks
Kant, Nalini - eSocialSciences - 2006
In India, thousands of women, men and children slave away in the brick kilns. Common to almost all brick kilns is the … use of violence, over or implicit. Women and girls, however, are profoundly affected. Many girls and young women are raped … poverty. This report, focusing on the widespread exploitation of brick making families, reviews the situation of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487763
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Review of Rural Non-farm Sector in India: Recent Evidence
Ranjan, Sharad - eSocialSciences - 2007
During the period 1972-73 to 2004-05 in rural India, the total number of workers expanded more in the non-farm sector than the farm sector with the rise in male workers being sharper than that of female workers. This enquir,y primarily based on NSS data, throws up ample evidence of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699005
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Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - eSocialSciences - 2013
aimed at improving labor market outcomes of women residing in low-income households in a developing country. [IGC working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945207