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Government of India wants to implement 'Conditions of Work and Livelihood Promotion Bill' for the agricultural workers … who are unorganized in nature in such a time when cultivation is not very profitable and employment generations in the … agricultural sector are declining. This paper is a theoretical attempt to identify the impact on agricultural employment and …
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in agriculture and its allied activities. That's why in India, non-farm activities in rural areas have become …The current trend in Indian Economy reveals that the excessive dependence on agriculture as a source of livelihood is … on continuous (steady) decline and rural employment base has accordingly witnessed a modest degree of diversification. In …
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The challenge of employment in the Indian economy, especially after it growth acceleration since the mid-1980s, relates … to its quality rather than its quantity. While employment growth has kept pace with the labour force over the long run …, what has grown is informal employment. The coexistence of rapid capital accumulation, robust output growth and lack of …
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This paper provides a literature review on youth employment challenges in rural Africa. The rapidly changing … employment. So far, despite sustained economic growth, African countries have not been successful in absorbing the fast … systems are increasingly recognized as potential catalyst for employment creation, given their future prospects and labor …
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This paper investigates the relationship between EU agricultural subsidies and the outflow of labor from agriculture … find that, on average, CAP subsidies reduce the outflow of labor from agriculture, but the effect is almost entirely due to … outflow from agriculture, i.e. on preserving jobs in agriculture. The impact of Pillar II is mixed. Our estimates predicts …
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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 …
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This paper, the neoclassical model of labour supply has been used to investigate the labour force participation and the probability of being employed for the case of Bangladesh. To our knowledge, this represents one of the first detailed studies of labour force participation for Bangladesh and...
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increase off-farm self-employment in response to both short-term and persistent droughts, without abandoning family farming …. Diversification into off-farm activities is driven by drought-related productivity declines in agriculture and contributes to …
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Rural Non-farm Employment(RNFE) has been gaining considerable importance in developing economies to overcome the … rural non-firm sector has been undertaken in India's North Eastern region. This paper is the result of a study undertaken by … continuous shift in rural economy of Arunachal Pradesh in favour of non-farm employment during the period 1971-1991, (b) in the …
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This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period … Indian state. While real wages have risen across India over the past two decades, the increase has been greater in rural … participation. Relative wage changes between rural and urban areas have been driven largely by shifts in employment, notably into …
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