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Informalization of Industrial Labour in India: Are labour market rigidities and growing import competition to blame?

Goldar, Bishwanath - eSocialSciences - 2010

Since the 1980s, there has been increasing informalization of industrial labour in India. It has taken two forms: rising share of the unorganized sector in manufacturing employment and informalization of the organized manufacturing sector itself through subcontracting and use of temporary and...

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Skills, Informality and Development

Maiti, Dibyendu S.; Mitra, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper makes an attempt to estimate the index of informal sector employment which can be attributed to the supply-push phenomenon. Factors which explain the inter-state variations include the industrial-informal sector wage gap, revenue expenditure, and development expenditure incurred by...

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Human Capital, Labour Productivity and Employment

Bhat, Savita; Siddharthan, N S - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper analyses the importance of human capital in determining the inter-state differences in labour productivity and its growth in India. The paper also examines the impact of human capital differences on the growth of employment for a cross section of Indian states for the period 2003-...

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Government mediated program on intensifying industry- academia linkages for human resource development; Experiences of an innovative model from TIFAC

Ayyaswamy, Jancy; Saxena, Neeraj; Parida, Antaryami - eSocialSciences - 2010

The importance of academia- industry linkages for development of an economy is well recognized. With a view to make the higher technical education relevant, by forging and catalyzing functional linkages between industry and academia, an innovative model was conceived by TIFAC in the shape of...

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Matching for Credit: Risk and Diversification in Thai Microcredit Groups

Ahlin, Christian - eSocialSciences - 2010

risk-matching and intra-group diversification of risk using data on Thai microcredit borrowing groups. We propose a non …-parametric univariate methodology for assessing homogeneity of matching; structural multivariate analysis is carried out using Fox's (2008 …) matching maximum score estimator. We find evidence of a) homogeneous sorting by risk and b) risk anti-diversification within …

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Access to Higher Education in India: An Exploration of its Antecedents

Basant, Rakesh; Sen, Gitanjali - eSocialSciences - 2013

Using appropriate measures of participation, this paper explores if the role of socio-religious background and other factors has changed over a period of time. This dynamics of participation in Higher Education (HE) is analyzed by using three rounds of NSS data for the period 1999-2010. [IIMA]....

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Towards Public Policy Education: Imparting Economic and Financia Literacy

Nandy, Amarendu; Asher, Mukul - eSocialSciences - 2008

Financial and economic literacy is essential for understanding forces that are driving social change in India, and globally. It is also an essential contributing factor in determining employability and in designing and delivering public services. India needs to establish widely accessible...

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The Great Education Muddle: State Failure and Judicial Jigsaw

Radhakrishnan, P. - eSocialSciences - 2005

A comprehensive White Paper on Indiaâ€™s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 years is urgently needed. Such a Paper should take stock of the present and required availability of access taking into consideration the size of the age-cohort population...

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Inititaing Public Debate on Reforms in Higher Education

Pitroda, Sam - eSocialSciences - 2007

Idea on National Knowledge Commission, what it is and what are they trying to accomplish, ask for the audience support, understanding and also talk about the need for major reforms in University education. [Convocation Address at University of Mumbai].

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Working Draft for Revised Medical Curriculum: Learning Objectives

Education, Task Force on Medical - eSocialSciences - 2007

The IIME Core Committee has developed the concept of 'Global Minimum Essential Requirements' (GMER) and defined a set of global minimum learning outcomes, which students of the medical schools must demonstrate at the point of graduation. The 'Essentials' are grouped under seven broad educational...

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