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Wage inequality often creates much broader socio-economic inequality and may even accentuate them. For attaining equitable development convergence in wages and earnings is therefore desirable. This paper explores trends and patterns in wage differentials in India in the post reform period. Using...
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in terms of high growth and high share in total employment in recent times. It is observed that women employment is … the new economy a trade-off is observed between women employment expansion and their wage condition. There also exists an … established sector where women have traditionally been accepted and are having stable employment and wage condition. In few …
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seems the most appropriate manner to combine and pursue employment and financial sustainability goals. The method computes …
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This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of …-similar employment cycles, but neighboring cities with similar racial compositions tend to have less-similar employment cycles …
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at firms across occupations given their heterogeneous skill endowments and preferences for employment in each occupation …
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This paper presents a model of occupational choice in a labor market characterized by moral hazard. The model demonstrates that in such a labor market, workers' occupational choices are determined by not only their comparative advantage but also their effort decisions in each occupation. The...
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This paper examines the effect of a federally-mandated public sector employment quota policy for minorities on their …. Third, we find evidence of employment quota externalities in that a policy targeted at one group affects the occupational … choice of the other group. Overall, the results suggest that federally-mandated employment quotas do change occupational …
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economic benefits, as evidenced by higher educational achievement and employment in communication intensive sectors. After …
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This paper examines the relationship between individuals' weight and their employment decisions over the life cycle. I … also allows individuals' employment decisions to affect body weight. I use conditional density estimation to formulate the …
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Discrimination against specific ethnic groups transcends the boundary of current generation and perpetuates across future generations as well. This is manifested as low Intergenerational Mobility in terms of both Education and Occupation in developing countries in general, and among specific...
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