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Offshoring and Unemployment: The Role of Search Frictions and Labor Minority
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economy wide rates of unemployment, we … increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a … unemployment. With imperfect intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous …
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International Outsourcing Hurdles in Value-added Services
Banerjee, Arindam - eSocialSciences - 2010
International Outsourcing has been traditionally looked upon as a low end cost effective servicing option to take advantage of the cost arbitrage that exists across countries. Of late, many outsourcing vendors have realized that the advantages of cost differentials that spurred a lot of the...
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Child Focussed Questions in Parliament in 2012
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2013
One third of the population of India are children below the age of 18 years. They are citizens of this country. Even though they do not vote, they have all rights as equal citizens of the country. How concerned are our parliamentarians about them- after all they represent them too. [HAQCRC].
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An MV Foundation's Role in Kothapally and Ravullapalli villages: An Impact Assessment
Nelles, Hadley - eSocialSciences - 2008
MVF is present in 13 districts in Andhra Pradesh covering 137 manddals. Shankerpally Mandal, in Ranga Reddy district, has been a part of the MVF project since the biggining. As MVF has been a part of these communities for well over a decade, significant change can be observed, thus making the...
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Twenty Years of CRC: A Balance Sheet- Volume 1
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2011
The report is a rich source with qualitative and quantitative data on the status of children in India from authentic and established sources. [HAQCRC report]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/CRC20BS_Vol%20I_1.pdf].
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Note on the Maharashtra Government Resolution, April 2006
Rights, Child; CRY, You - eSocialSciences - 2009
The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act was passed in 1986. It banned Child Labour from a list of hazardous industries, and over the next 25 years, continued to add sectors and tasks to the list of ‘hazardous’ ones, thus gradually increasing the scope of the act to cover...
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The Poverty Argument
Nagarjuna, M. - eSocialSciences - 2008
The Poverty Argument arises from the single fact that any family with a critically low level of income and struggling to keep “the wolf from the door†must, in order to survive, send the children to work The MVF Project rejects the Poverty Argument and its implication of the...
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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - eSocialSciences - 2007
The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. [IZA Discussion Paper No. 115].
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The Politics of Negotiation: MVF and Multinational Corporations on Child Labour in Cottonseed Field.
Lifer, Yumi - eSocialSciences - 2008
Child Labour in the hybrid cottonseed fields has caused much attention locally and internationally. Inexpensive labour is crucial for the farmers, as 52% of the cost of production goes toward human labour alone. Unfortunately 90% of the laborers are female children between the ages of seven and...
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Impact Of Girl Child’s Enrollment On Work Sharing and Distribution Pattern in Families
Venkateshwaralu, Davaluri - eSocialSciences - 2008
of child labour system and universalisation of primary education.This study is an effort to know about the girl’s work …
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