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This paper estimates the short-and-medium-run effects of participating in a sub- sidized vocational training program aimed at improving labor market outcomes of women residing in low-income households in a developing country. [IGC working paper].
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The task of workforce development in India faces the changing realities of globalization and competitiveness, on one hand, and the need for inclusive growth on the other. This report focuses on the issues, practices, challenges, and policy directions for workforce development in India,...
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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 … can also be decomposed into mean and distributional components and contributions to unemployment by various subgroups of …
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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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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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moderation in the volatility of employment and output. How the mistakes and subsequent successes of the last quarter century of …
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This paper tries to focus on the method to assess the magnitude of short/seasonal migration based on its broad characteristics. It attempts to analyse the contrasting characteristics of short duration and permanent migration. The study applies the widely recognised demographic technique of...
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