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Female labour supply in india: proximate determinants

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Traditional official definition of ‘work’ in developing countries excludes large number of activities that are predominantly performed by women. Naturally official Female Labour Force Participation Rate is quite low in such countries. Women who are officially in the labourforce must...

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Unemployment among educated youth: implications for India’s demographic dividend

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Researchers claim that India is poised for reaping demographic dividend and leapfrog to a higher level of income-employment situation utlising the relatively larger share of youth or working age persons in total population. However, the outcome depends on the contribution of youth to national...

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India’s demographic dividend: opportunities and threats

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Demographic transition creates a small window for countries to leverage their demographic dividend and leapfrog to a higher level of income-employment situation. This opportunity comes in the middle stage of demographic transition when the population pyramid shows signs of maturity and bulges in...

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Wages and Employment in the Liberalised Regime: A Study of Indian Manufacturing Sector

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

. The present paper examines the veracity of this by examining the trends in employment and earnings in this sector over the … increase both employment and earnings. …

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State Intervention and Labour Market in India: Issues and Options

Majumder, Rajarshi; Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

State interventions into Labour policies in India are directed towards ensuring both job security and income security. In this paper we look at likely impact of such policies. The laws are found to serve the organised workers primarily while large masses of unorganised workers are without any...

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Earning Differentials Across Social Groups: Evidences from India

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

in labour markets has far-reaching consequences because of its impact on earnings and asset creation. In this paper we … look at earnings differentials across social groups in the Indian Wage Labour Market. The results indicate that the share … and their shares in Wage Earnings are even lower. Earning ratios has been continuously declining, most sharply in the 2000 …

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Employment and Wages in the Liberalised Regime: A Study of Indian Manufacturing Sector

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

. The present paper examines the veracity of this by examining the trends in employment and earnings in this sector over the … increase both employment and earnings. …

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Globalisation and Employment: A Prelude

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Globalisation has proceeded at an unimagined pace in the last few decades. While it has resulted in high growth of global income, questions are raised about the equity of such growth. Disparity seems to be aggravating, as globalisation seems to be depressing the labour market. Unemployment is...

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Tertiarisation of the Indian labour market: a new growth engine or sending distress signals?

Mukherjee, Dipa; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Tertiarisation of labour market has globally been associated with economic progress. But in developing countries, labour market deformities may push people into service economy out of distress also. This paper examines the tertiarisation process in Indian labour market to bring out the reasons...

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A quarter of a century: mobility and stagnation in India’s rural labour market

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Transformation of the countryside from agrarian subsistence economy to non-farm monetised economy is propagated as a precursor of growth and development and involves shifting of labour from farming to off-farm activities. India has started its journey in this path but has a long way to go....

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