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By using two large repeated cross-sections, one for the early 1990s, and one for the late 1990s, the growth in school enrolment is described and completion rates for boys and girls in India, and to explore the extent to which enrolment and completion rates have grown over time. It decomposes...
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gender discrimination and promote equality for working men and women through legislation and social and economic policies to … organizations across the globe. In Asia, mostly women continue to experience the greatest disadvantages resulting from gender … inequalities and entrenched discrimination in work and in life. The economic and social contributions made by women in the family …
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In this paper, a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts is illustrated. In India, exam ….Then there is a random assignment of child “characteristics†(age, gender, and caste) to the cover sheets of the exams to … to lose out the most due to discrimination. Interestingly, findings also suggest that the discrimination against low …
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We study firms’ advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret … these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms’ underlying gender … preferences from firms’ propensities to restrict their search to their preferred gender. The model also predicts that higher job …
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Based on the last four rounds of NSS data the study explores some dimensions of women’s labour market participation across social groups. [CWDS Occasional Paper No.59]. URL:[http://www.cwds.ac.in/OCPaper/OccasionalPaper59.pdf].
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resolution analysis with varying time scale decomposition suggests a strong and persistent negative relationship between growth …
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Devoted to the analysis of housing market in India, the paper employs a special decomposition scheme for the structural …
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then applies the newly developed shapley value decomposition technique to quantify the contributions of globalization …
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Over the last decade, India has been one of the fastest growing economies, and has experienced considerable decline in overall income poverty. However, in a vast country like India, poverty levels vary significantly across the different states. In this paper, we analyze the differences between...
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Knowledge of demand structure and consumer behaviour is essential for a wide range of development policy questions like improvement in nutritional status, food subsidy, sectoral and macroeconomic policy analysis, etc. An analysis of food consumption patterns and how they are likely to shift with...
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