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credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having … institution. The present study examines the recovery performance of rural credit given by PACS in six different regions of India … Bank of India in collaboration with State Governments. …
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Workers in cooperatives are self-employed workers and, if they resemble employees in conventional workplaces, they care about the length of their working hours. In this paper, their choice of hours is characterized as a conventional labor supply decision and a familiar hours-wage relationship is...
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A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective …
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A growing body of research has been investigating the role of management practices and managerial behaviour in conventional private firms and public sector organizations. However, little is known about managers' behavioural profile in noninvestor-owned firms. This paper aims to fill this gap by...
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Throughout human history, informal sanctions by peers were ubiquitous and played a key role in the enforcement of social norms and the provision of public goods. However, a considerable body of evidence suggests that informal peer sanctions cause large collateral damage and efficiency costs....
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We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts resulting from WTO entry. Regions that initially specialized in industries facing larger tariff cuts experienced relative declines...
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This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
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-development spending ; India …
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Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …
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organised manufacturing industries in India. The study uses a recent survey data on labour market in the organised manufacturing … benefits in the organized manufacturing industries in India. -- Trade unions ; wage differentials ; manufacturing …
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