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Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply …
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Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation … rate remains very low in India. In this paper, we examine the factors responsible for the difference in female labor force …
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Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation … rate remains very low in India. In this paper, we examine the factors responsible for the difference in female labor force …
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Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation … rate remains very low in India. In this paper, we examine the factors responsible for the difference in female labor force …
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Using the nationally representative Indian Time Use Survey, we study whether the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) as cooking fuel affects the time spent in cooking and employment activities for Indian rural women. We instrument use of LPG by a leave-one-out spatial instrument constructed by...
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The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the … in India. The findings of this paper are that the increase in the wage premium has come mostly from demand shifts in …
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This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the … increasing effects of tertiary education suggests that wage inequality in urban India may increase further in the near future as …
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India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …
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