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Minimum Wages in Kenya
Andalon, Mabel; Pages, Carmen - 2021
This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data - the last labor force survey available - indicate that...
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The Impact of Indian Job Guarantee Scheme on Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Azam, Mehtabul - 2012
(NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses causal impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of NREGA …
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The Informal Labour Market in India : Transitory or Permanent Employment for Migrants?
Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2013
This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether migrants treat this sector as a temporary location before moving on to the organised or formal sector to improve their life time income and life style. We limit our study to the Indian urban...
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Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India
Hazarika, Gautam - 2006
children's propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between … activities. Thus, unlike recent studies of child work in India's South Asian neighbors of Bangladesh and Pakistan, this paper …
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The Impact of Employment Quotas on the Economic Lives of Disadvantaged Minorities in India
Prakash, Nishith - 2021
India has the world's biggest and arguably most aggressive employment-based affirmative action policy for minorities …
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The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India
Dhingra, Swati; Machin, Stephen J. - 2021
This paper uses a new field survey of low-wage areas of urban India to show that employment and earnings were decimated …
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Rise of the Indian Middle Class and its Impact on the Labor Market
Eggimann, Andres; Kendzia, Michael - 2022
in Asia. The key contributors to this trend are China and India. Between 2011 and 2019, GDP per capita has surged by 66 … percent in China and 53 percent in India. Forecasts by the OECD predict that between 2030 and 2035, India will overtake China … implications that are associated with the rise of a growing middle class on India's labor market …
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Looking Back on the Lessons of 'Higher Education and Developing Countries : Peril and Promise': Perspectives on China and India
Bloom, David E. - 2016
focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …
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Do Educated Leaders Affect Economic Development? Evidence from India
Jain, Chandan; Kashyap, Shagun; Lahoti, Rahul; Sahoo, Soham - 2022
investigate the impact of electing an educated politician on economic development in the politician's constituency in India. We …
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International Comparisons in Health Economics:Evidence from Aging Studies
Banks, James; Smith, James P. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
We provide an overview of the growing literature that uses micro-level data from multiplecountries to investigate health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at olderages. Since the data are at a comparatively young stage, much of the analysis is at an earlystage and limited to a...
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