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In this study attempt has been made to link the gender differences in parental resource allocation in demand for … education at primary, secondary and tertiary level of education to gender differences in returns to education in these …
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political process that successfully thwarted the automation of Indian manufacturing sector has caused an irreparable damage to …
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Development approach. No Concept of development, however, can be complete unless and until it incorporates the gender component at …
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Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by … underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This … article discusses several mechanisms through which, as countries grow, gender gaps narrow. …
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Gender discrimination manifests itself as violence in the family, community, and society. It takes the forms of female …
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changes produce, ‘fall back’ on traditional norms regarding gender and domestic roles. This makes the bargaining situation …
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This report aims at quantifying the magnitude of gender-based disparities that women face in the organized sector of … the Indian labour market, and track their progress over time. The extent of the gender pay gap is measured on various …
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This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms...
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A persistent widening of skill based wage inequality in the Indian Organised Manufacturing sector has been reported by many researchers. Two main hypotheses had been tested in developed economies to explain such a phenomenon; an inter-sectoral shift in demand structure and an intra-sectoral...
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The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. [IZA Discussion Paper No. 115].
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