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Education, Lack of Complementary Investment and Underemployment In an Open Economy
Marjit, Sugata; Ahuja, Rashmi; Pandey, Abhilasha - 2021
In many developing economies rate of unemployment is increasing with skill accumulation and thereby leading to underemployment. Our paper offers to look at skill formation as a demand side problem not as a traditional supply side problem and also how skill formation or education affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657984
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Indignity of Labor: Role of Occupational Prestige in Unemployment
Marjit, Baisakhi; Marjit, Sugata; Gupta, Kausik; Kar, Saibal - 2022
Occupational prestige or job status may induce people to remain unemployed even when jobs are available. Thus measured unemployment will always have a voluntary component. Accumulated wealth in a family tends to increase the opportunity cost of job search, more so in a world where job status is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427731
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Indignity of Labor : Role of Occupational Prestige in Unemployment
Marjit, Baisakhi; Marjit, Sugata; Kar, Saibal; Gupta, Kausik - 2022
Occupational prestige or job status may induce people to remain unemployed even when jobs are available. Thus measured unemployment will always have a voluntary component. Accumulated wealth in a family tends to increase the opportunity cost of job search, more so in a world where job status is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076704
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Education, Lack of Complementary Investment and Underemployment in an Open Economy
Marjit, Sugata; Ahuja, Rashmi; Pandey, Abhilasha - 2021
In many developing economies rate of unemployment is increasing with skill accumulation and thereby leading to underemployment. Our paper offers to look at skill formation as a demand side problem not as a traditional supply side problem and also how skill formation or education affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213779
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Quadratic Costs, Innovation and Welfare: The Role of Technology
Marjit, Sugata; Mishra, Suryaprakash - 2020
In a Cournot oligopoly set up with constant marginal cost and linear demand, innovation is rewarding. In this paper we … work with a Cournot oligopoly framework with increasing marginal cost and linear demand and show that innovation may not be … interaction we attempt to capture and explain is the one of technology with the possibility of innovation via the intensity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269594
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Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality: Can Immigrants be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata - 2018
that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could … embedded in talented immigrants targeted for innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872139
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Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality: Can Immigrants be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata; Kar, Mausumi - 2019
that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could … embedded in talented immigrants targeted for innovation. Empirical verification using a VAR regression model in the context of … immigration facilitates innovation with favorable impact on reducing wage-gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140995
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Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality : Can Immigrants Be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga - 2019
that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could … embedded in talented immigrants targeted for innovation. Empirical verification using a VAR regression model in the context of … immigration facilitates innovation with favorable impact on reducing wage-gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861379
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Quadratic Costs, Innovation and Welfare : The Role of Technology
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
In a Cournot oligopoly set up with constant marginal cost and linear demand, innovation is rewarding. In this paper we … work with a Cournot oligopoly framework with increasing marginal cost and linear demand and show that innovation may not be … interaction we attempt to capture and explain is the one of technology with the possibility of innovation via the intensity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824572