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Does technological growth-induced migration lead to income convergence? The case of India’s early 2000s telecom boom
Dutta, Arnab; Randolph, Gregory - 2022
-urban migration of about 13 million individuals out of which 4 million moved for employment. To estimate the effects, we exploit the … explain the migration-induced income divergence. We find that rural residents with STEM education were 0.7 percentage points … earned a similar migration premium of almost 50%. We speculate that this skill-based sorting occurred due to highly skilled …
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Disparities in earnings and education in India
Rani, P. Geetha - In: Cogent economics & finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 1-18
This paper studies the impact of different levels of education, religion, caste as well as the impact of living in urban and rural communities on earnings in India. Besides these conventional stratification, yet another academic caste which influence earnings-the English language ability, is...
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Education-occupation mismatch and dispersion in returns to education : evidence from India
Grover, Shweta; Sharma, Ajay - 2020
Using a national level sample survey on labour market in India, we analyze the role of education-occupation (mis-)match (EOM) in explaining within-group dispersion in returns to education. Applying a double sample selection bias correction and Mincerian quantile wage regression estimation, the...
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Social Learning, Neighborhood Effects, and Investment in Human Capital : Evidence from Green-Revolution India
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2014
This paper empirically identifies social learning and neighborhood effects in schooling investments in a new technology regime. The estimates of learning-investment rule from farm household panel data at the onset of the Green Revolution in India, show that (1) agents learn about schooling...
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Club convergence among the major Indian states during 1982-2014 : does investment in human capital matter?
Hembram, Sulekha; Maji, Souparna; Haldar, Sushil Kumar - In: South Asia economic journal : journal of the Institute … 20 (2019) 2, pp. 184-204
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Regional Trade Openness Index and Income Disparity - A New Methodology and the Indian Experiment
Marjit, Sugata - 2008
This study tries to look at how 'open' Indian states are with respect to international trade and then try to characterise the relationship between regional disparity and 'openness'. The major purpose of this work is to develop an openness index at the regional or state level. It is well...
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Gender differential of educational outcomes in India : how does space matter?
Bhattacharyya, Antara; Haldar, Sushil Kumar - In: Risks and Resilience of Emerging Economies : Essays in …, (pp. 289-312). 2023
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Inequality and locational determinants of the distribution of living standards in India
Balasubramanian, Sriram; Dhir, Rishabh Kumar; Loungani, … - 2021
be explained by location alone. Consumption levels and locational inequality are positively related. In effect, from an … economic migration from rural to urban areas within a fast-growing emerging economy. While individuals cannot easily alter …
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Price convergence across regions in India
Das, Samarjit (contributor);  … - 2004
The paper attempts to examine whether there is price convergence across various regions in India. Our results indicate significant presence of cross-sectional dependence in prices in India, rendering some of the standard panel unit root tests inapplicable. Using various panel unit root tests...
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Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
Ghani, Syed Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William - 2012
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...
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