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Intergenerational Persistence of Industry of Employment in India

Nandi, Tushar K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper studies the intergenerational persistence of industry in India. Using data from a nationally representative …

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Air pollution, foetal mortality, and long-term health: Evidence from the Great London Smog

Ball, Alastair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper provides new evidence on the consequences of foetal exposure to high levels of pollution for the risk of stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes from a persistent weather system that affected...

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Main features of the labour policy in Portugal

Moniz, António; Woll, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

thus commentaries are welcome. The structure is based on the following topics: a) The employment policy (Time regimes …

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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy

Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...

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Impact of Alternative & Innovative Education Programmes: A Study of Bridge Course Centres in Bardhaman District

Hati, Koushik Kumar; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

all children under coverage of Elementary Education, which sadly has not been possible yet in India. Policy makers have … India through some of its alternative, innovative, and flexible programs. In this paper we examine the performance of one of …

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Regional Disparities in Poverty and Education in India

Sivakumar, Marimuthu; Vijay, M - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

India is a witness of regional disparities in many sphere of socio- economic development. On one side, world’s majority … of new billionaires are in India and on the another side, India has majority of poor people. Like that, in development … (education) in India with the emphasis on State wise analysis. The elasticity concept has used to study the relationship between …

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Toiling children in India : the gender dimension

Kumar, Rajnish; Mitra, Arup; Murayama, Mayumi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

Child labour in several low income households is rather pursued for gaining experience and at times for meagre incomes, which are possibly spent on household food expenditure. Though the contribution made by the child labour to the overall wellbeing does not turn out to be substantial, without...

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Primary completion rates across socio-religious communities in West Bengal

Husain, Zakir; Chatterjee, Amrita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Primary completion rates of Muslims in West Bengal are substantially lower than that of upper caste communities as well as backward castes, scheduled castes and tribes. Further, analysis of age-specific pcr indicates that differences in pcr between Muslims and other communities may have actually...

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Analysing demand for primary education: Slum dwellers of Kolkata

Husain, Zakir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The low level of literacy within the Muslim community is traditionally explained in terms of the conservative values characterising Muslim society. Based on a field survey of slum dwellers in selected areas of Kolkata, this article argues that economic factors and uncertainties in the labour...

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Dimensions and determinants of upward mobility : a study based on longitudinal data from Delhi slums

Mitra, Arup; Tsujita, Yuko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

This study based on two primary surveys of the same households in two different years (2007/08 and 2012) assesses the extent of inter-temporal change in income of the individual workers and makes an attempt to identify the factors which explain upward mobility in alternate econometric framework,...

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