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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 Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional …
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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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This paper revisits the issue of the intra-household of education with the recently available India Human Development …
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incidence and cost of private tutoring at different stages of schooling over the last two decades in India. As private tutoring … private tutoring is not a new phenomenon in India: a significant proportion of students at each stage of schooling took …
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In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following …
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India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643720
India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644810
This paper utilizes individual level earnings data from urban India to examine the evolution of wages during 1983 …
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Using a Hurdle model, the paper finds that although significant progress in gender equality in education was achieved during 1993–2005, pro-male gender bias still exists in the within-household allocation of educational expenditure. This bias occurs primarily through differential spending on...
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