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develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for …
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-rural migration continues to be the largest in terms of magnitude, we also document an increase in two-way commuting across rural and … with jobless growth in recent years has contributed to an increase in certain migration streams. While rural … urban areas. Further, there are a large number of short term migrants and an increase in return migration rate is also …
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Unlike migration, scant attention has been paid to the phenomenon of commuting by workers in developing countries. This …
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This paper presents a lecture delivered by the author under The Pravin Visaria Public Lecture in GIDR. India has made considerable demographic progress since 1947; however it seems that the country’s population will reach about 1.4 billion by the year 2026. In case of mortality, despite major...
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migration among tribal women has not fundamentally altered their conditions of historical disadvantage in the agrarian economy … additional disadvantage. While the principal patterns of tribal women’s migration have been identified in the paper with an eye … on the nature of work/employment relations being shaped by their migration, and its implications for an equality and …
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This paper investigates the impact of political leaders’ migration experience on the quality of their leadership. A … results are confirmed by various robustness tests. They propose a new channel through which migration may affect politics in …
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similar consumers. This effect only disappears two generations after migration, as tastes adjust to local prices. These …
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This working paper provides an overview of migration policy analysis in academic and policy (‘grey’) literature for … Southeast Asia, as well as a brief outline of the current migration policy environment in each of the eleven states of the …
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Nagaland’s population decreased during 2001–11 after growing at abnormally high rates during the past few decades. This is the first time since independence that a state in India has witnessed an absolute decline in population. In this context, the paper examines the census...
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labour migrants from the Asia-Pacific region. This inter-regional migration is managed under a regime aimed at ensuring that …
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