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India's increasing skill premium: role of demand and supply
Azam, Mehtabul - 2009
The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the … in India. The findings of this paper are that the increase in the wage premium has come mostly from demand shifts in …
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Preferences and skills of Indian public sector teachers
Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - 2012
With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282599
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Reforms, growth and persistence of gender gap: Recent evidence from private school enrolment in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha; Sharma, Anurag - 2011
This paper examines the extent of gender gap in private school enrolment in India, an issue that has not been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282389
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Push or pull? Drivers of female labor force participation during India's economic boom
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2012
In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282183
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From the shortage of jobs to the shortage of skilled workers: labor markets in the EU new member states
Rutkowski, Jan - 2007
Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a dramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269266
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Skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology
Poschke, Markus - 2010
In contrast to the very large literature on skill-biased technical change among workers, there is hardly any work on the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in particular on their evolution over time. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274617
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The importance of skill measurement for growth accounting
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Rybalka, Marina; … - 2010
In a growth accounting context one usually constructs a quality adjusted index of labor services by aggregating over predefined groups of workers, using the groups' relative wage bills as weights. In this article we suggest a method based on decomposing individual predicted wages into a...
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We Already Live in a Degrowth World, and We Do Not like It
Naudé, Wim - 2023
The Degrowth Movement calls for "degrowth" – a reduction in GDP in advanced economies – to avert an ecological crisis. This paper argues that the Degrowth Movement misses that the West is already in a state resembling degrowth – a Great Stagnation. This state of degrowth and its...
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Women Legislators and Economic Performance
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018
India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873600
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Reforms, Growth and Persistence of Gender Gap: Recent Evidence from Private School Enrolment in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha; Sharma, Anurag - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper examines the extent of gender gap in private school enrolment in India, an issue that has not been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371892