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Intergenerational Persistence of Industry of Employment in India

Nandi, Tushar K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper studies the intergenerational persistence of industry in India. Using data from a nationally representative …

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Air pollution, foetal mortality, and long-term health: Evidence from the Great London Smog

Ball, Alastair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper provides new evidence on the consequences of foetal exposure to high levels of pollution for the risk of stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes from a persistent weather system that affected...

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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy

Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...

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Human resource development: the Asian experience in employment and manpower planning - an overview

Amjad, Rashid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1987

The overview based on country studies included in this volume investigates the extent to which it has been possible to integrate human resource development and give priority to this important goal within the overall planning process. While it is clear that the development of human resources has...

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Main features of the labour policy in Portugal

Moniz, António; Woll, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

thus commentaries are welcome. The structure is based on the following topics: a) The employment policy (Time regimes …

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Impact of Alternative & Innovative Education Programmes: A Study of Bridge Course Centres in Bardhaman District

Hati, Koushik Kumar; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

all children under coverage of Elementary Education, which sadly has not been possible yet in India. Policy makers have … India through some of its alternative, innovative, and flexible programs. In this paper we examine the performance of one of …

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Regional Disparities in Poverty and Education in India

Sivakumar, Marimuthu; Vijay, M - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

India is a witness of regional disparities in many sphere of socio- economic development. On one side, world’s majority … of new billionaires are in India and on the another side, India has majority of poor people. Like that, in development … (education) in India with the emphasis on State wise analysis. The elasticity concept has used to study the relationship between …

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Climate Change and Development: Trade Opportunities of Climate Smart Goods and Technologies in Asia

Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This study focuses on trade opportunities of climate smart goods and technologies (CSGT) in Asia. Paper mainly highlights the export gaps for climate smart goods and technologies (CSGT) in Asia and identifies the trade opportunities among trade partners in intraregional and interregional....

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Primary completion rates across socio-religious communities in West Bengal

Husain, Zakir; Chatterjee, Amrita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Primary completion rates of Muslims in West Bengal are substantially lower than that of upper caste communities as well as backward castes, scheduled castes and tribes. Further, analysis of age-specific pcr indicates that differences in pcr between Muslims and other communities may have actually...

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Analysing demand for primary education: Slum dwellers of Kolkata

Husain, Zakir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The low level of literacy within the Muslim community is traditionally explained in terms of the conservative values characterising Muslim society. Based on a field survey of slum dwellers in selected areas of Kolkata, this article argues that economic factors and uncertainties in the labour...

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