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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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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 …
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Working and Living Conditions of Women Domestic Workers: Evidences from Mumbai
Paul, G.D Bino; Dattagupta, Sushanta; R, Venkatesha Murthy - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper, exploring primary data collected from 1510 women domestic workers in Mumbai, evidently brings out that …
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Development Challenges in Extremist Affected Areas
Commission, Expert Group Planning - eSocialSciences - 2009
Widespread discontent among the people has plagued the Indian polity for sometime now. It has often led to unrest, sometimes of a violent nature. Over the years, statutory enactments and institutional mechanisms for addressing the various aspects of deprivation have been brought into being. But...
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Kerala Budget 2010-11
Govt, Government of Kerala - eSocialSciences - 2010
Budget speech by finance minister Dr. Thomas Issac
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Government Structure and Labour Market Outcomes in Garment Embellishment Chains
Unni, Jeemol; Scaria, Suma - eSocialSciences - 2010
The perspective of global commodity chain or GCC framework and social embeddedness are used to understand the organizational and social linkages in the embellishment production network in garment industry. The findings are based on the fieldwork conducted in Bareilly situated in Uttar Pradesh,...
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Women’s Work in the Post Reform Period: An Exploration of Macro Data
N, Neetha - eSocialSciences - 2009
changes into defining or redefining gender relations and empowerment of women. In India, the aura created by liberalization …, reflected that new opportunities for women are opening up. The paper analyses women’s employment through a disaggregate … analysis provided in the paper suggests that the growing social and economic crisis is sending vast sections of women workers …
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Productivity Response to a Contract Change
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Ray, Debraj; V´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 … that skill development, inclusion of women, agricultural employment and social security need special focus. The articles …
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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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