health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a ?purged? health measure similar to …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …

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 …

India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of … corruption increases level of employment in the informal sector. Further, our analysis also shows that for higher levels of …

Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access …

childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in … extent of mother?s full-time employment when the child was aged 0-5. The effects of mother?s part-time employment and father …?s employment are smaller and less well determined but again negative. In the context of our conditional demand function framework …

In this paper, we estimate the difference in long-run after-tax and transfer income from employment and from non-employment … they were to be employed, relative to their disposable income in the absence of employment, and that the median gain would … the fewest number of households (43%) would gain from employment. The share of households that would have in increase in …