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Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities : The Role of Employment Quota

Prakash, Nishith - 2009

exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …

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The informal labour market in India : transitory or permanent employment for migrants?

Junankar, Pramod N.; Shonchoy, Abu - 2013

This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether migrants treat this sector as a temporary location before moving on to the organised or formal sector to improve their life time income and life style. We limit our study to the Indian urban...

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Acculturation and the labor market in Mexico

Cano-Urbina, Javier; Mason, Patrick L. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-29

This paper empirically examines the relationship between the self-identity as Indigenous and earnings inequality in the Mexican labor market. Using Mexican Census data and a large set of wage covariates reveals the existence of an earnings penalty for self-identification as Indigenous. There is...

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Those who can't sort, steal : caste, occupational mobility, and rent-seeking in rural India

Lawson, Nicholas; Spears, Dean - 2019

Three important features of Indian labor markets enduringly coexist: rent-seeking, occupational immobility, and caste … explains these facts as an equilibrium outcome. Some people switch caste-associated occupations for an easier source of rents … facts exploiting a unique survey question on casteism in India, which we show is associated with rent-seeking. …

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The informal labour market in India : transitory or permanent employment for migrants?

Shonchoy, Abu; Junankar, Pramod N. - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-27

This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether internal migrants treat this sector as a temporary location before moving on to the organised or formal sector to improve their lifetime income and living conditions. We limit our study to the Indian urban...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010389586

Caste and ethnic diversity in private sector employment : a case of registred micro, small and medium enterprises in India

Mamgain, Rajendra P. - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 57 (2014) 4, pp. 373-387

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The impact of employment quotas on the economic lives of disadvantaged minorities in India

Prakash, Nishith - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 180 (2020), pp. 494-509

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Re-exhuming the old hatchet : the effects of affirmative action policies on political preferences in post-apartheid South Africa

Belmonte, Alessandro; Ticchi, Davide; Ubaldi, Michele - 2025

This paper studies whether affirmative action policies towards the outsider group may foster a backlash by the insider one. We exploit the unique historical context provided by the legacy of apartheid in democratic South Africa. We found that the completion of the affirmative action legislation...

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Not in education, employment or training: das "NEET-Problem" - Ansichten eines Gesellschaftsphänomens

Werth, Silke - In: Japan ... : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (2008), pp. 267-291

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Discrimination as favoritism : the private benefits and social costs of in-group favoritism in an experimental labor market

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David; Peterlé, Emmanuel - 2017

In this paper, we examine labor market favoritism in a unique laboratory experiment design that can shed light on both …

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