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Informalization of Industrial Labour in India: Are labour market rigidities and growing import competition to blame?

Goldar, Bishwanath - eSocialSciences - 2010

: rising share of the unorganized sector in manufacturing employment and informalization of the organized manufacturing sector … in India. An econometric model is estimated for this purpose using unit level data of the NSS 61st round employment … casual employment among workers with education above primary. The results also show that education enhances the probability …

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Minimum Wages And Poverty

Kanbur, Ravi; Fields, Gary - eSocialSciences - 2005

Textbook analysis tells us that in a competitive labor market, the introduction of a minimum wage above the competitive equilibrium wage will cause unemployment. This paper makes two contributions to the basic theory of the minimum wage. First, we analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in...

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Is Community Forest Management Good for the Environment and the Poor? â€“ A Review

Shyamsundar, Priya; Ghate, Rucha - eSocialSciences - 2012

Over the last two decades, community-based forest management has graduated from being an experimental strategy to becoming a much more mainstream approach. In developing countries, an estimated 22 percent of forest estate is owned by or reserved for community and indigenous groups. Now a SANDEE...

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Suicide and Property Rights in India

Anderson, Siwan; Genicot, Garance - eSocialSciences - 2012

Is there an impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level variation in legal changes to women's property rights, it is shown that better property rights for women are associated with a decrease in the difference between female and male suicide...

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