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migrants. [Working Paper No. 442]. URL:[http://www.cds.edu/]. …
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This paper investigates the impact of political leaders’ migration experience on the quality of their leadership. A database is constructed on the personal background of 932 politicians who were at the head of the executive power in a developing country over the 1960-2004 period. A...
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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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The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level studies in India. It also discusses the extent, patterns, and correlates of short term migration with the help a large set of data collected from rural households in major states in...
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estimating employment and income generated in the informal economy in India. [NCEUS WP NO 3]. …
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South Africa has undergone a remarkable transformation since its democratic transition in 1994, but economic growth and … employment generation have been disappointing. Most worryingly, unemployment is currently among the highest in the world. While … the early 1990s. The weakness in particular of export-oriented manufacturing has deprived South Africa from growth …
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also discuses the issue of availability and choice of employment as a key driver towards socio-economic urban integration. …
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The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is, domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta. [CESS WP 84].
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into satisfactory poverty reduction. The type of growth that matters Bangladesh is the one that creates employment … opportunities especially for the poor. In Bangladesh, monetary policy can create better employment opportunities with a well …
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: rising share of the unorganized sector in manufacturing employment and informalization of the organized manufacturing sector … in India. An econometric model is estimated for this purpose using unit level data of the NSS 61st round employment … casual employment among workers with education above primary. The results also show that education enhances the probability …
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