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Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence from firm level survey in India

Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - eSocialSciences - 2010

This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in Indiaâ€™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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Conceptualising Informality: Regulation and Enforcement

Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2009

The informality discourse is large and vibrant, and is expanding rapidly. But there is a certain conceptual incoherence to the literature. New definitions of informality compete with old definitions leading to a plethora of alternative conceptualisations. While some individual studies may apply...

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Socio-Economic and Ecological Benefits of Mangrove Plantation: A Study of Community Based Mangrove Restoration Activities in Gujarat

Viswanathan, P.K.; Pathak, Kinjal D; Mehta, Ila - eSocialSciences - 2011

A comprehensive assessment of the multiple benefits of mangrove ecosystems and their restoration efforts in Gujarat is made. The study is important and contextual as there are very limited empirical evidences as regards the impacts/ outcomes of mangrove restoration activities on the local...

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Realising Decent Work

Paul, G.D Bino - eSocialSciences - 2011

A commentary on final report of the task force on domestic workers

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Discount Rate for Health Benefits and the Value of Life in India

Shanmugam, K. R. - eSocialSciences - 2011

accept a risky job with higher wages. The estimated real discount rate ranges between 2.7 and 3 percent, which is closer to …

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Globalization, Wages, and Working Conditions: A Case Study of Cambodian Garment Factories

Warren, Cael; Robertson, Raymond - eSocialSciences - 2011

factories to explore (1) the impact of foreign ownership on wages and working conditions, (2) whether the relationship between … wages and working conditions within these exporting factories more closely resembles efficiency wage or compensating …-owned firms. They find that foreign ownership increases compliance on both wages and working conditions, contradicting the …

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Working and Living Conditions of Women Domestic Workers: Evidences from Mumbai

Paul, G.D Bino; Dattagupta, Sushanta; R, Venkatesha Murthy - eSocialSciences - 2011

This paper, exploring primary data collected from 1510 women domestic workers in Mumbai, evidently brings out that domestic work as a feminine occupation in a global city like Mumbai is a epitome of critical deficits in human development, a vicious situation of lack of core entitlements which...

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Games the State Plays: A Follow-up Report on the Violations of Workersâ€™ Rights in Commonwealth Games Related Construction Sites

People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR - eSocialSciences - 2011

The Commonwealth Games have been an eye opener in several ways. Behind the glitz of fancy stadiums, hotels, and apartments, lies the murky and sensitive death knell of a large majority of people whose livelihoods and habitats are at stake and who have become cheap pawns in the Commonwealth...

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Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants

Goel, Deepti; Lang, Kevin - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper is an attempt to fill the knowledge of the role played by network in the labor market assimilation of immigrants and the mechanisms through which networks affect the labor market outcomes of recent immigrants.

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Government Structure and Labour Market Outcomes in Garment Embellishment Chains

Unni, Jeemol; Scaria, Suma - eSocialSciences - 2010

The perspective of global commodity chain or GCC framework and social embeddedness are used to understand the organizational and social linkages in the embellishment production network in garment industry. The findings are based on the fieldwork conducted in Bareilly situated in Uttar Pradesh,...

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