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household or in distributing the benefits of work in favour of the marginalised population (such as Scheduled Castes and …
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facing these risks? This paper attempts to measure the wage premiums that farm workers in India receive for health risks … agricultural laborers who do not handle pesticide from Kerala in 2009-10 and the hedonic wage approach. Results indicate that the … farm workers in India receive approximately an additional wage premium of Rs. 20 per hour for facing occupational health …
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The paper is a report of a survey done in Chitradurga District, Karnataka to know the functioning of NREGA and awarness of people about this Act.
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. 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 … worker productivity. [PIDE Working Papers]. URL:[http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/Working%20Paper/WorkingPaper-90.pdf]. …
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Whether the outcome of bargaining over wage and employment between an incumbent firm and a union remains efficient … wage is not observed, contracts feature over-employment. Under separating equilibrium the low type is over-employed, and … under entry threat is examined. The workers\' reservation wage is not known to the entrant, and entry is profitable only …
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wage informal employment, and scarcity of decent regular wage employment. The collection of essays discuss the labour … that skill development, inclusion of women, agricultural employment and social security need special focus. The articles … and employment. …
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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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equilibrium wage will cause unemployment. This paper makes two contributions to the basic theory of the minimum wage. First, we … analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … perspective from unemployment to poverty leads to a considerable enrichment of the theory of the minimum wage. …
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Results from the NSS 61st Round Employment – Unemployment Survey, 2004-05 on the issue of fair access to social …
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workers using micro data from the 2004-05 Employment and Unemployment Survey, NSSO, linked to state-level factors. [IGIDR WP …
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