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This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and unskilled workers, and then dramatically increased its...
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This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context …
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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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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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, 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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India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional …
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Production processes are often organised in teams, yet there is limited evidence on whether and how social connections and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line production in a lab-in-the-field experiment in which...
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Since the early 1990s, the employment structure of organised manufacturing industries in India has undergone …. The study uses data at the individual level from a recent labour survey of organised manufacturing industries in India …
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Using manufacturing data for India, this paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on two types of labor …
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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 …
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