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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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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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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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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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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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Does Political Competition Matter for Economic Performance? Evidence from Sub-national Data

Saibal, Ghosh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The study utilizes data on major Indian states for 1980-2004 to explore the impact of political competition on state-level income and fiscal variables. The findings suggest that increase in political competition leads to an increase in state per capita income and growth. Focusing on fiscal...

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Infant and Child Mortality in Andhra Pradesh: Analysing changes over time and between states

Masset, Edoardo; White, Howard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

of a two-thirds reduction by 2015. Yet, some countries and regions have achieved impressive reductions, Kerala in India …. We conclude that raising service levels across India toward the levels found in Kerala is a necessary step toward meeting …

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