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Earnings differences between Chinese and Indian wage earners, 1987 - 2004
Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2008
This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent …
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The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India
Bhalotra, Sonia; Valente, Christine; van Soest, Arthur - 2009
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...
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Public and private sector jobs, unreported income and consumption gap in India: Evidence from micro-data
Kar, Saibal; Roy, Poulomi; Saha, Sarani - 2012
This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate …
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Education policies and practices: What have we learnt and the road ahead for Bihar
Ranjan, Priya; Prakash, Nishith - 2012
other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284013
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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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 …
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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...
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Linking individuals and societies
Jasso, Guillermina - 2009
How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science - population and variable. Starting with the simplest case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269509
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The impact of social comparisons on reciprocity
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2008
We investigate the effects of pay comparison information (i.e. information about what co-workers earn) and effort … comparison information (information about how co-workers perform) in experimental firms composed of one employer and two … employees. Exposure to pay comparison information in isolation from effort comparison information does not appear to affect …
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