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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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Human capital and economic growth in India : a time series analysis using educational variables from 1982-2017
Naik, Surendra Kumar; Bairagya, Indrajit - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014556593
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Human capital potential of India's future workforce
Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya - 2015
. However, such concern has been largely missing as far as the future workforce is concerned. This paper discusses India … preprimary education. In conclusion, India will have to focus, inter alia, on early health and preschooling (soft skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332967
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Specific human capital and skills in Indian manufacturing: observed wage and tenure relationships from a worker survey
Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Abhishek, Kumar - 2020
It is an overarching and persistent fact that job creation in the Indian manufacturing sector has fallen short of the growth in the workforce. The successive governments since 2009 onwards have attempted to initiate policies to enhance the growth in employment along with quality of jobs in the...
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Child labor, rainfall shocks, and financial inclusion : evidence from rural households
Bernal, Carolina; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2023
This paper examines how rural households cope with climate change related rainfall shocks by re-allocating children's time between domestic activities and school attendance. Households affected by an unanticipated rainfall shock face an inter-temporal trade-off between current household income...
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Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? : the case of housing markets in India
Tandel, Vaidehi; Gandhi, Sahil; Nanda, Anupam; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014283474
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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men
Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015
This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new longitudinal dataset that contains detailed information on individual working histories. Our favourite panel estimates indicate that an additional year of parental education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317905
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Adaptation for mitigation
Ikefuji, Masako; Magnus, Jan R.; Sakamoto, Hiroaki - 2014
This paper develops a dynamic model consisting of two regions (North and South), in which the accumulation of human capital is negatively influenced by the global stock of pollution. By characterizing the equilibrium strategy of each region, we show that the regions’ best responses can be...
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Anatomy of lifetime earnings inequality : heterogeneity in job ladder risk vs. human capital
Karahan, Fatih; Ozkan, Serdar; Song, Jae - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803480
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Health shocks and the evolution of earnings over the life-cycle
Capatina, Elena; Keane, Michael P.; Maruyama, Shiko - 2020
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