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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s
Stuart, Robert C.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...
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Rural labor absorption efficiency in urban areas under different urbanization patterns and industrial structures: The case of China
Liwen, Chen; Zeng, Xiangquan; Yumei, Yang - 2011
under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … urbanization patterns and industrial development strategies should be adopted in different economic areas to enhance labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282403
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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 …
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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 …
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