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Trade policy and wage inequality: evidence from Indian manufacturing
Sen, Kunal - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 1 (2008) 2, pp. 147-171
Purpose – There has been a period of slow but a steady increase in wage inequality in the Indian manufacturing sector since the mid-1980s, which has gone hand-in-hand with an increase in the relative employment of skilled workers across all industries in the same period. The purpose of this...
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Private saving in India and Malaysia compared: the roles of financial liberalization and expected pension benefits
Ang, James; Sen, Kunal - In: Empirical Economics 41 (2011) 2, pp. 247-267
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Rain, rain, go away? The investment climate, state–business relations and firm performance in India
Kathuria, Vinish; Raj, S.N. Rajesh; Sen, Kunal - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 4 (2011) 2, pp. 172-186
Productivity (TFP) for formal sector firms in India for the years 2000–2001 and 2004–2005 and find support for this hypothesis. …
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Domestic Market Integration
Virmani, Arvind; Mittal, Surabhi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The paper looks into the level of integration of commodity markets in India, across centres and states using consumer … price data. It measures the extent to which domestic markets for goods in India are integrated, and recommends policy … methodology proposed by Bradford and Lawrence (2004) on the consumer prices of goods in major states across India. This is then …
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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S.N.; Sen, Kunal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
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Towards A Competitive Economy: VAT and Customs Duty Reform
Virmani, Arvind - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper the issue of indirect tax reform, with a special focus on customs duty reform is examined. [WP]
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THE DETERMINANTS OF PRIVATE SAVING IN INDIA
Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Sen, Kunal - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2001
This paper examines the determinants of private saving in the process of economic development, in the light of the Indian experience during the period 1954 - 1998. The methodology involves the estimation of a saving rate function derived within the life cycle framework while paying attention to...
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The Determinants of Private Saving in India
Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Sen, Kunal - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2001
This paper examines the determinants of private saving in the process of economic development, in the light of the Indian experience during the period 1954 - 1998. The methodology involves the estimation of a saving rate function derived within the life cycle framework while paying attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005057581
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Planning for Results: The Public Accountability Information System
Virmani, Arvind - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper proposes a Public accountability information system (PAIS), with a web enabled public information system and a smart card recording all the benefits that the poor are entitled to receive through government programs. [Planning Commission WP 1/2007].
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Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification among Dalits in Rural India
Gang, Ira; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) - 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 …
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