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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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In this paper, I analyze India's approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on … financial globalization. India's authorities have taken a cautious and calibrated path to capital account opening, which has … the key challenge now facing India's policymakers on this front. …
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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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Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the relationship between women's employment status and their...
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state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …
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exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) has boomed in post-reform India. Moreover, the composition and type of FDI has changed … considerably since India has opened up to world markets. This has fuelled high expectations that FDI may serve as a catalyst to … higher economic growth. We assess the growth implications of FDI in India by subjecting industry-specific FDI and output data …
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This study provides an understanding of the Indian regional economy utilizing the fundamental economic structure (FES) approach. The FES construct implies that selected characteristics of an economy will vary predictably with region size, as measured by net state domestic product, population,...
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regimes. It is found that relative to India, which had implemented process patent until 2005, China with a product patent …
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, India, Brazil, and South Africa (CIBS). Furthermore, we compare the level of financial stability, and the composition and …
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