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Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the study assessed the multifactorial drivers of...
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Labor migration to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has massive effects on the GCC, the countries migrants come from, and the migrants themselves and their families. Yet existing research on the effects of Gulf migration is marked by its extreme scarcity, reliance on descriptive...
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Globalization, or integration with the world economy via WTO membership, was expected to increase foriegn investment and benefit the labour intensive manufacturing sector in China. Yet, although foreign investment has been flowing into China and employment in the low-wage industries is...
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Existing research examining the self-selection of immigrants suffers from a lack of information on the immigrantsâ … matching for immigrants has been conducted prior to their leaving the home country using home country wages as the outcome …
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The analysis focuses on immigrants and native-born individuals because employers are likely to have less reliable … empirical finding that the wage gains associated with height are almost twice as large for immigrants than for native …
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to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme hired young women from the community …
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.21 less years of education as an adult. In the short-term, the effects are stronger than in the long run. Further, children …
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A comprehensive White Paper on India’s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 … consideration the size of the age-cohort population in the relevant age-groups, and cover all issues relating to higher education … such as ensuring social justice through education for all, relevance of public-private partnership, admission policy …
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Development education policy has recently focused on school-based recognition and conditional cash transfer programs to … that focus on levels (rather than changes) of achievement can exacerbate inequality in education. In addition, our findings …
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Education (C.A.B.E.) held on 10-11 August, 2004, a Committee of C.A.B.E. was constituted vide Order dated 8.9.04 of the Ministry … in Art. 21-A of the Constitution, and (b) To examine other issues related to elementary education for achieving the … objective of free and compulsory basic education.†This is its report …
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