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Suicide and Property Rights in India
Anderson, Siwan; Genicot, Garance - eSocialSciences - 2012
Is there an impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level variation in … in the difference between female and male suicide rates, but an increase in both male and female suicides.[BREAD Working …
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Entry Threats and Inefficiency in ‘Efficient Bargaining’
Pal, Rupayan; Saha, Bibhas - eSocialSciences - 2010
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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Why Does Mental Health Not Get the Attention It Deserves? An Application of the Shiffman and Smith Framework
Tomlinson, Mark; Lund, Crick - eSocialSciences - 2012
% of this burden lies in low- and middleincome countries. Suicide is one of the leading causes of death globally for all …
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Choosing to Live: Guidelines for Suicide Prevention Counselling in Domestic Violence
Burte, Aruna; Deosthali, Padma; Rege, Sangeeta - eSocialSciences - 2005
Nearly a million people take their own lives every year, more than those murdered or killed in war. Suicide is a … hospital based project on domestic violence to help understand the distress and helplessness that a person attempting suicide …
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Providing Microfinance and Social Space to Empower Adolescent Girls: An Evaluation of BRAC’s ELA Centres
Shahnaz, Rizwana; Karim, Raihana - eSocialSciences - 2010
social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …
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Short Duration Migration in India: An Appraisal from Census 2001
Korra, Vijay - eSocialSciences - 2011
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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For Love or Money? Motivating Workers
Naeem, Saima; Zaman, Asad - eSocialSciences - 2013
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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Compensating Wages for Occupational Risks of Farm Workers in India
P, Indira Devi; Shanmugam, K R; Jayasree, M. - eSocialSciences - 2013
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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Budget 2014-15: The Continuing Neglect of the 'Rural'
Banerjee, Arindam - eSocialSciences - 2014
The Union Budget remains significant for the agricultural sector in the country for at least the following two reasons. First, the budget comes in the background of an agrarian crisis in the country, persistent since the late nineties, which also coincided with the period of a policy thrust on...
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Closure for the Sraffa System: A Theory of Value, Distribution and Growth
Parchure, Rajas - eSocialSciences - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to pursue the implications of closing, in the sense of rendering determinate, the Sraffa equations of production, prices and distribution [Sraffa (1960)] by adding to them demand equations of the type estimated in Stone’s (1954) linear expenditure system. The...
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