In 2007-2008, short-term migrants (STMs) constituted 4.35% of the rural workforce in India and a total of 9.25 million rural households included STMs. Using nationally representative data for rural India, this paper examines differences in consumption expenditure across households with and...

Unlike migration, scant attention has been paid to the phenomenon of commuting by workers in developing countries. This paper fills this gap by using a nationally representative data set from India to analyze factors that affect the decision of workers to commute across rural and urban areas...

A comparative dielectric dispersion study of the soft mode dynamics of monomeric FLC compounds and the corresponding siloxane copolymers is presented. The results show that although the relaxation frequency is two orders of magnitude smaller for the copolymer, the dielectric strength remains the...

Using Saupe's continuum theory we discuss the feasibility of determining some of the twelve curvature elastic constants of an orthorhombic nematic by studying the effects of external magnetic and electric fields applied in different sample geometries.