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Are all labor regulations equal? Evidence from Indian manufacturing
Ahsan, Ahmad; Pagés, Carmen - 2008
Using manufacturing data for India, this paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on two types of labor …
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Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330095
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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2009
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330097
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Reforms, entry and productivity: some evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis; … - 2006
factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India … institutional and legacy factors. We also find evidence to suggest that, in India, entry rates were positively associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267353
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Earnings inequality in India: has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2006
state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267499
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The relation between child labour and mother's work: The case of India
Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2007
states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268139
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Steering towards the high road: a study of human resource management in two Indian garment factories
Lake, Henrietta - 2007
resource management systems at two garment factories manufacturing for export in India. They make the same product for the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268147
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Fatal fluctuations? Cyclicality in infant mortality in India
Bhalotra, Sonia - 2007
This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268267
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Economic influences on child migration decisions: evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Edmonds, Eric V.; Salinger, Philip - 2007
examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268330
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The elite and the marginalised: an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2008
In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite...
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