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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 …
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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 …
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states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …
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resource management systems at two garment factories manufacturing for export in India. They make the same product for the same …
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This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …
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examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …
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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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Survey (NFHS-2) for India, we find that, controlling for many covariates among which wealth is the most powerful predictor …
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This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent …
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Using manufacturing data for India, this paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on two types of labor … benefit workers either, as they do not increase the share of value added that goes to labor. Labor-intensive industries, such … as textiles, are the hardest hit by amendments that increase employment protection while capital-intensive industries are …
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