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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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social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …
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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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include economic growth, local poverty, and inequality, all of which are generally believed to accelerate the process. Of …
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The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across states. This represents a puzzle given the relatively free flows of capital, labor and commodities across state borders. A new data set of district level income and socio-economic data is used to explore the...
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This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …
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This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and population sub-groups. [Discussion Paper No. 2001/21].
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This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups – Scheduled Castes (SCs)...
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This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact that these networks tend to connect historical...
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growth experience; (ii) rising inequality as a threat to growth, and (iii) the case for continued development assistance to …
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