This study investigates the employment and wage disparities between people with and without disabilities. It shows that …, the potentially greater job flexibility offered by self-employment, and discrimination against people with disabilities …

This working paper presents a comparison of the employment structure and development among different types of districts … that in Western Germany the rural districts of minor density could not keep up with the employment growth in the remaining … contributions to research in the field of regional employment disparities clarifies that the differences are driven by a large …

countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of …. In contrast, there is little evidence for negative private employment effects. …

computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …

This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India's organized manufacturing in order to … understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 … bicycles for 2005-06 an attempt is made to find out the factors which constrain employment generation in labour intensive firms …

India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … SEZs lend themselves to human development concerns, in India. Employment generated by zones is remunerative. Wage rates are … study examines the sectoral and economic composition of SEZ activities in India. It finds that labour intensive, skill …

Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why … there is a tendency for women to withdraw from the labor force to attend to domestic duties (income effect), that employment … and partly due to an education effect. We find no evidence of changes in employment opportunities or of social and …

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 …, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and …

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 …