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Creating Youth Employment in Asia
Dev, S. Mahendra - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper examines the labour market characteristics for adults and the entire population. Then it analyses challenges and opportunities in labour market for youth. Next, the paper discusses the existing and needed policies for taking care of the challenges in overall and youth labour markets....
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Technology Intensity and Global Competitiveness: Issues in Labour Cost and Employment
Mitra, Arup; Sharma, Chandan - eSocialSciences - 2014
Productive employment generation is an important objective in most of the developing countries this motivation has probably induced firms to adopt capital intensive techniques. Based on the country specific data on the manufacturing sector in select developing countries the argument of high cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945230
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Unemployment Burden and its Distribution: Theory and Evidence from India
Motiram, Sripad; Naraparaju, Karthikeya - eSocialSciences - 2014
To develop a measure of unemployment that takes into account both the level and intensity of unemployment and that … can also be decomposed into mean and distributional components and contributions to unemployment by various subgroups of … the population. To apply this measure to understand unemployment in India using data from National Sample Surveys on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945241
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The Youth Employment Crisis: A Call for Action
eSocialSciences; International Labour Organisation ILO - 2013
Resolution and conclusions of the 101st Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva, 2012. [ILO].
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The Impact of NREGA on Rural-Urban Migration: Field survey of Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu
Jacob, Naomi - eSocialSciences - 2013
Migration can act as a negative force. It can lead to distress migration, which is what happens when people have to go to cities to find work because they cannot survive on what they can earn in their own villages. Can NREGA be used to curb rural urban migration? [CCS Working Paper No. 202].
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Kerala-The Land of Development Paradoxes
George, K.K.; Kumar, N. Ajith - eSocialSciences - 2012
An attempt has been made to understand the paradoxes of Kerala's development like the state's per capita consumer expenditure is more than the per capita state domestic product. But the nutritional intake is low. [CSES working paper 2]....
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Gender Dimensions: Employment Trends in India, 1993-94 to 2009-10
Mazumdar, Indrani; N, Neetha - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper examines some of the explicit as well as not so explicit trends in relation to women’s employment in India from 1993-94 till 2009-10 and argues that they indicate a grave and continuing crisis in women’s employment under liberalization led growth. Trends in the...
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Can Social Security Boost Domestic Consumption in the People’s Republic of China?
Dewen, Wang - eSocialSciences - 2010
improve its social security system and provide basic support for all of its people. The unemployment shock has caused rural … social security would not only mitigate unemployment shocks in the short term, but it would also guarantee individuals and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552009
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European Views on Asia and Europe-Asian Relations
Ramiah, Venil - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper examines in its first part, the views of leading European academics, politicians, lobbyists and opinion-makers on the issue of relations with Asia. The second part of this paper looks at what might be done to improve the Asian side of things. Two measures are proposed. First, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500555
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Offshoring and Unemployment: The Role of Search Frictions and Labor Minority
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economy wide rates of unemployment, we … construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which unemployment is caused by search frictions. The model shows that wage … increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980022