The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites due to globalization. In the last century … recruitment may actually lead to class stratification and auto-recruitment. In this paper, I show that due to globalization, the … stratification effect will be even stronger. Globalization will bring about the formation of an international technocratic elite with …

Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps …

with globalization may be twin to each other. We provide statistical evidence of this so far neglected trade-off for a …

has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this … lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the average (log) earnings of Hindu and Muslim wage earners in India …, during the 1987-2005 period. Our results indicate that education differences between Hindu and Muslim wage earners …

especially among skilled individuals will soon become relevant for a country's economy. Also of importance is education of … education worsens the situation. Therefore family planning as well as fertility providing and educational measures are of major … education of their parents by using a Cobb-Douglas utility function which implies that children and consumption are …

This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an … extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome … their education policies if highly productive labor is fully mobile. Extortionary governments? incentives for education …

Globalization became more and more prominent during the last decades. There is no way to argue that globalization led … distinguish between them more, which can exacerbate nationalistic feeling. Friedman argues that globalization made the world …

a women’s empowerment programme in rural India on child immunization and school enrolment. The survey covers both …

states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … earnings suggest that at lower levels of education, female labor force participation is driven by necessity rather than …