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This paper studies the intergenerational persistence of industry in India. Using data from a nationally representative …
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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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globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries, using a pseudo micro panel on 110’000 persons from the World Values Survey … information exchange, increases employment probabilities of women. However, when accounting for sub-national regional differences …) increases female employment in a cross-country fashion. …
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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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have the potential to positively influence the quantity and quality of women’s participation in agriculture in India … these ensuing opportunities, because they are ideologically more empowered vis-a vis women in rest of India. Having said …
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This paper present an overview of the state of lifelong learning in Bulgaria from a gender perspective; reviews the progress in the public debates in this area and analyzes the implemented policies for developing lifelong learning in accordance with the European strategic objectives, including...
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globalization on female employment in 30 OECD countries, using a micro pseudo panel of 110’000 persons derived from five waves of … the probability of employment for women – contradicting the Becker (1957)-hypothesis of international competition … mitigating discrimination in employment. However, accounting for sub-national regional gender heterogeneity reveals that the …
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thus commentaries are welcome. The structure is based on the following topics: a) The employment policy (Time regimes …
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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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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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