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Was the mandal commission right? : living standard differences between backward classes and other social groups in India
Gang, Ira N. (contributor); Sen, Kunal (contributor);  … - 2008
Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688798
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Are urban-rural welfare differences growing in India?
Azam, Mehtabul - 2017
, we examine the urban-rural welfare gap in India in 1983, 1993-94, 2004-05, and 2011-12 across the entire distribution … India Human Development Surveys. …
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Regional income inequality in selected large countries
Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
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Are girls the fairer sex in India? : revisiting intra-household allocation of education expenditure
Azam, Mehtabul; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - 2011
India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional …. -- gender bias ; educational expenditure ; hurdle model ; school choice ; India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306946
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Does BMI predict the early spatial variation and intensity of COVID-19 in developing countries? : evidence from India
Menon, Nidhiya - 2020
of India and finds that conditional on a range of individual, household, and regional characteristics, adult BMI …-risk populations in developing countries like India. …
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Spatial income inequality in India, 1993-2011 : a district level decomposition
Azam, Mehtabul; Bhatt, Vipul - 2016
role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find … that between-state income differences account for the majority of between-district income inequality in rural India in 2011 …. However, in urban India within-state income differences explain most of the between- district inequality in 2011. We also find …
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Population adjustment to asymmetric labour market shocks in India : a comparison to Europe and the United States at two different regional levels
Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022
most striking difference is that, in India, we do not find any significant reactions to asymmetric non-employment shocks at … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable … to regional wage differentials in India at both the state and district level. …
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Social capital, entrepreneurship and living standards : differences between immigrants and the native born
Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques; King, Laura - 2016
Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However, relatively little econometric analysis has been done on their interrelationship. In this paper we first consider the relationship between social capital and the prevalence of...
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Individual rationality and learning : welfare expectations in East Germany post-reunification
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - 2002
In this paper we test the Rational Expectations hypothesis using longitudinal data on expectations and realizations of individual welfare for East Germans in the years following reunification. German reunification was unexpected and delivered a large shock to the future prospects of the...
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Living standards and economic vulnerability in Turkey between 1987 and 1994
Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001
Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts outside Turkey to use household survey data from two nationally representative surveys conducted in 1987 and 1994 to get a picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415594