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Abstract: The paper analyzed the contribution of informally employed women (for the age group of 16-60 years) in their … household budget. The urban informal sector absorbs the women workers largely. What are the determinants of their contribution … observations it is found that women as head of household, women’s education, and ownership of assets by woman have positive effect …
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feminisation of workforce. This paper focuses on this changing position of women in the informal manufacturing sector in India over …Women's position in the labour market is quite vulnerable and they face widespread discrimination, especially in the … the 1989-2000 period. The share of women in total employment is declining in the sectors traditionally labeled for women …
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aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
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In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
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are negatively associated with the probability that those individuals will consider suicide many years after graduation. …
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This study is the first attempt to empirically examine the determinants of suicides in the case of Turkey using the time-series data for the period 1974-2007. This research proposes that the suicides in Turkey are related to some economic and social factors and they exhibit a dynamic...
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The question to what extent corruption influences suicide remains still unanswered. This paper examines the effect of … corruption on suicide using a panel data approach for 24 OECD countries over the period 1995-2004. Our results show that suicide …
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’s (1951) seminal work in the field of sociology is that suicide is under influences of not only individual traits but also of … the society one belongs to.  Recently it was found that the effect of socio-economic variables on suicide rates depends on … gender. This paper attempts to examine the difference of socio-economic factors on suicide between males and females. I used …
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Suicide is a major cause of preventable death. Restricting access to lethal means has been identified as an effective … approach to suicide prevention, and firearms regulations are one way to reduce gun availability. This study examines the … relationship between state firearms regulations and suicide among males, using negative binomial regression and state panel data …
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