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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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Productive employment generation is an important objective in most of the developing countries this motivation has … effect of labour market regulations on employment has also been assessed. Evidence does not favour labour market deregulation …; rather skill factor reveals a negative impact on employment, implying a mismatch between the available labour quality and the …
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employment and unemployment during the period 1993-2012. It shows that unemployment has generally fallen in this period, but this …To develop a measure of unemployment that takes into account both the level and intensity of unemployment and that … satisfies several desirable properties, including distribution sensitivity (dealing with differences among the unemployed). It …
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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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