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Impact of Special Economic Zones on Employment, Poverty and Human Development
Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2007
India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … SEZs lend themselves to human development concerns, in India. Employment generated by zones is remunerative. Wage rates are … study examines the sectoral and economic composition of SEZ activities in India. It finds that labour intensive, skill …
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Employment outcomes and policies in Sweden during recent decades
Forslund, Anders - 2019
The Swedish employment rate is high in an international comparison and has been rising during recent decades. This … survey in this report suggests that the main drivers of the high and rising Swedish employment rates can be found in policies …
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Structural change in developing countries: Has it decreased gender inequality?
Rendall, Michelle - 2012
labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the … results show that India, the country with the greatest physical labor requirements, exhibits the largest labor market gender …
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Labour supply responses to paid parental leave
Karimi, Arizo; Lindahl, Erica; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2012
Women account for the majority of parental leave take-up, which is likely one of the major reasons for the gender gap in income and wages. Consequently, many countries exert effort to promote a more gender equal division of parental leave. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in...
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The role and changing paradigm of India's assistance to Nepal: Case of the education sector
Goyal, Tanu M. - 2019
India is seen as a key developmental partner to Nepal with the latter being one of the first receipts of development … aid from India. Development aid from India to Nepal has not only been associated with creation of infrastructure in the … training for skill development have been the focal points of India's development cooperation programme. Development aid has …
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The National Skills Qualification Framework in India: The promise and the reality
Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2020
India's TVET system, by international standards, is at a very rudimentary level of development. TVET was a relatively … neglected subject in India's educational planning, at least until the beginning of 2007. However, this changed with the 11th … found to be not different than India's. Finally, the paper reviews briefly efforts of the government to expand TVET at …
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Income diversification and working children
Vimefall, Elin - 2015
During recent years (2004-2008) the proportion of working children in sub-Saharan Africa has increased (Diallo et al. 2010). At the same time, there has been a shift in the patterns of livelihoods, whereby households rely more on sources of income from outside their own farms. When the adult in...
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Migration and university education: An empirical (macro) link
Akkoyunlu, Şule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022
Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We...
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Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2013
Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey. We contribute to the literature on the economic value of...
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The Role of Education and Income Inequality on Environmental Quality. A Panel Data Analysis of the EKC Hypothesis on OECD
Maranzano, Paolo; Bento, Joao Paulo Cerdeira; Manera, Matteo - 2021
We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for income inequality in 17 OECD countries. By applying an innovative approach to country grouping, based on the temporal evolution of income inequality and clustering techniques to...
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