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International trade and manufacturing employment outcomes in India: A comparative study
Sen, Kunal - 2008
of methodological approaches - factor content, growth accounting and econometric modelling. We also compare India …
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The Puzzling Decline in Rural Women's Labor Force Participation in India: A Reexamination
Neff, Daniel; Sen, Kunal; Kling, Veronika - 2012
Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293542
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Is caste destiny? Occupational diversification among dalits in rural India
Gang, Ira; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2011
The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281901
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Is caste destiny? Occupational diversification among dalits in rural India
Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-su - 2012
The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282193
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283965
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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
This paper analyzes how preferences for a non-economic characteristic, such as caste, canaffect equilibrium patterns of matching in the marriage market, and empirically evaluates thisin the context of arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We develop a model thatdemonstrates how the...
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Dams
Duflo, Esther; Pande, Rohini - 2005
large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a … estimates suggest that large dam construction in India is a marginally cost-effective investment with significant distributional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369167
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The use of the statutory liquidity ratio for resource mobilisation and "financial disintermediation"
Sen, Kunal - 1991
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Reforms and investment in India
Athukorala, Premachandra; Sen, Kunal - 1996
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Trade liberalization and productivity growth : evidence from Indian manufacturing
Chand, Satish; Sen, Kunal - 1996
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