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Entry Threats and Inefficiency in ‘Efficient Bargaining’
Pal, Rupayan; Saha, Bibhas - eSocialSciences - 2010
wage is not observed, contracts feature over-employment. Under separating equilibrium the low type is over-employed, and …Whether the outcome of bargaining over wage and employment between an incumbent firm and a union remains efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520383
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Jobs and Livelihoods Mapping the Landscape
IKF, IRIS Knowledge Foundation - eSocialSciences - 2014
wage informal employment, and scarcity of decent regular wage employment. The collection of essays discuss the labour … that skill development, inclusion of women, agricultural employment and social security need special focus. The articles … and employment. …
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The Public Procurement Bill, 2012
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance - 2012
A bill to regulate public procurement with the objectives of ensuring transparency, fair and equitable treatment of bidders, promoting competition, enhancing efficiency and economy and safeguarding integrity in the procurement process and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650333
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Civil War: A Review of Fifty Years of Research
Blattman, Christopher; Miguel, Edward - eSocialSciences - 2009
A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal war? A survey of the growing body of macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence to assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543100
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Preventing Odious Obligations: A New Tool for Protecting Citizens from Illegitimate Regimes
eSocialSciences; Centre for Global Development - 2010
need to levy taxes to fulfill debt contracts incurred in this manner for fear of legal retribution and loss of reputation … with investors if they fail to repay. And in the case of natural resource contracts, citizens continue to suffer from the … sweetheart contracts that deprive the government of deserved revenues. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008763393
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Providing Microfinance and Social Space to Empower Adolescent Girls: An Evaluation of BRAC’s ELA Centres
Shahnaz, Rizwana; Karim, Raihana - eSocialSciences - 2010
social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …
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Short Duration Migration in India: An Appraisal from Census 2001
Korra, Vijay - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper tries to focus on the method to assess the magnitude of short/seasonal migration based on its broad characteristics. It attempts to analyse the contrasting characteristics of short duration and permanent migration. The study applies the widely recognised demographic technique of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002281
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Productivity Response to a Contract Change
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Ray, Debraj; V´ericourt, Francis de - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change. The setting is a tea plantation in India. The activity in question is tea-plucking, the output from which is measurable and contractible. Payments to pluckers consist of a baseline wage, along with piece rates per kilogram of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945319
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Gender Pay Gap in the Formal Sector: 2006 - 2013: Preliminary Evidence from Paycheck India Data
Varkkey, Biju; Korde, Rupa - eSocialSciences - 2013
This report aims at quantifying the magnitude of gender-based disparities that women face in the organized sector of the Indian labour market, and track their progress over time. The extent of the gender pay gap is measured on various parameters such as age, educational qualifications, industry,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945425
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Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - eSocialSciences - 2014
The effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages are analysed over the course … of the agricultural production cycle. It is shown theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the …-stage wages. Indian household panel data describing early-season migration and district-level planting- and harvest-stage wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945520