software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more … software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more …

; anthropometrics ; Hindu ; Muslim ; India …

In this paper, I analyze India's approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on … financial globalization. India's authorities have taken a cautious and calibrated path to capital account opening, which has … the key challenge now facing India's policymakers on this front. -- India ; international financial integration ; capital …

This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the … increasing effects of tertiary education suggests that wage inequality in urban India may increase further in the near future as … more workers get tertiary education. -- Earning functions ; India ; quantile regression decomposition ; wage …

The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the … in India. The findings of this paper are that the increase in the wage premium has come mostly from demand shifts in … supply shift was weak. -- India ; wage premium ; tertiary (college) ; secondary (high school) …

associated with sharp reductions in marital violence. -- Domestic violence ; employment status ; property ownership ; India …

labour market. A unique, rich and representative data survey for all Indian states and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998-1999) allows … married women aged 15 to 49. Our results for urban and rural India show that the FP effect is significant in rural India, that … India, we compare this effect with that one of Governmental Policies (GP) supporting household income and promoting …

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set – the India Human Development Survey, 2005 – to …