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An analysis of the ability of employers to provide care and attention as a way to motivate their employees is done. 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...
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This paper tests the predictive value of subjective labour supply data for adjustments in working hours over time. The idea is that if subjective labour supply data help to predict next year’s working hours, such data must contain at least some information on individual labour supply...
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that even if competitively determined may not be adequate for the poor household to reach their target income; what they … Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in recent past, to complement the income of the poor by providing them employment for … scheme on (i) rural labour market, (ii) income of the poor households and (iii) overall agricultural production. It is seen …
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The main aim of this paper is to examine two core features of on-the-job search in India. First, based on National Sample Survey (NSS) 66th round unit level data, we identify the factors influencing the decision of the employed to engage in search activity. [LMRF Discussion Paper 14]....
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The aim of this research is to explore the determinants of household income and expenditure growth, and assess whether … the household, (2) access to infrastructure, (3) changes in rice prices, (4) peace situation, and (5) initial household …
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The paper reviews the trends over three decades in the consumption of cereals, calories and micronutrients and nutritional status based on anthropometric measures using the data sets of NSS, NNMB and NFHS. It provides an explanation for the slow growth of nutrient intake and slow reduction in...
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Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively …
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resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the …
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household welfare in Nepal. The study was undertaken to see whether degraded forest land, a resource available to a greater or … lesser extent in all low-income countries, can be managed to both improve the environment and enhance socio …
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earning activities and migration. We examined the livelihood outcomes for the ultra poor looking at household income, food … what strategies the ultra-poor seem to have followed in three years to improve their livelihoods – changes in income …
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