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Providing Microfinance and Social Space to Empower Adolescent Girls: An Evaluation of BRAC’s ELA Centres
Shahnaz, Rizwana; Karim, Raihana - eSocialSciences - 2010
social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468424
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Short Duration Migration in India: An Appraisal from Census 2001
Korra, Vijay - eSocialSciences - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002281
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Food Prices, Wages, and Welfare in Rural India
Jacoby, Hanan G - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper considers the welfare and distributional consequences of higher relative food prices in rural India through the lens of a specific-factors, general equilibrium, trade model applied at the district level. [Policy Research Working Paper 6412].
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Closure for the Sraffa System: A Theory of Value, Distribution and Growth
Parchure, Rajas - eSocialSciences - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to pursue the implications of closing, in the sense of rendering determinate, the Sraffa equations of production, prices and distribution [Sraffa (1960)] by adding to them demand equations of the type estimated in Stone’s (1954) linear expenditure system. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321479
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Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper estimates the short-and-medium-run effects of participating in a sub- sidized vocational training program aimed at improving labor market outcomes of women residing in low-income households in a developing country. [IGC working paper].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945207
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Choice and Success of Job Search Methods
Weber, Andrea; Mahringer, Helmut - eSocialSciences - 2014
. We use unique data on the search behavior of job seekers sampled from the inflow into employment during the year 1997 in … and job durations for employed and unemployed workers. Our main finding is that the public employment service specializes …
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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 … effect of labour market regulations on employment has also been assessed. Evidence does not favour labour market deregulation …; rather skill factor reveals a negative impact on employment, implying a mismatch between the available labour quality and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945230
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Patterns of Migration, Water Scarcity and Caste in Rural Northern Gujarat
Fishman, Ram; Jain, Meha; Kishore, Avinash - eSocialSciences - 2013
Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater …
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Unemployment Burden and its Distribution: Theory and Evidence from India
Motiram, Sripad; Naraparaju, Karthikeya - eSocialSciences - 2014
employment and unemployment during the period 1993-2012. It shows that unemployment has generally fallen in this period, but this …
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Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining
Wang, Shing-Yi - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper examines whether an individual-level transfer of property rights increases the individual's bargaining power within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing tenants the opportunity to purchase the homes that...
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