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Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India

Prakash, Nishith; Rockmore, Marc; Uppal, Yogesh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The recent increase in the number of criminally accused politicians elected to state assemblies has caused much furor in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent views, the implications of their elections to state legislative assemblies on constituency-level...

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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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Reforms, Growth and Persistence of Gender Gap: Recent Evidence from Private School Enrolment in India

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha; Sharma, Anurag - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper examines the extent of gender gap in private school enrolment in India, an issue that has not been adequately addressed previously. Results based on individual level unit record data shows that a girl is less likely to be sent to private schools holding other factors constant and...

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Do Employment Quotas Explain the Occupational Choices of Disadvantaged Minorities in India?

Howard, Larry L.; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This article investigates the effects of a large-scale public sector employment quota policy for disadvantaged minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the 1980s and 1990s. We find that, first, the employment...

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Consumption and Social Identity: Evidence from India

Khamis, Melanie; Prakash, Nishith; Siddique, Zahra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We examine spending on consumption items which have signaling value in social interactions across groups with distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are defined by caste and religious affiliations. The classification of such items was done by eliciting responses to a...

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Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities: The Role of Employment Quota

Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority...

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Measurement of Globalization and Its Variations Among Countries, Regions and Over Time

Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the … technological innovation also provides impetus to the progressive integration of the nations. The elements of globalization include … economic benefits, globalization also indicates the flow of ideas, norms, information and peoples. There is a large …

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Labour Use and Its Adjustment in Indian Manufacturing Industries

Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model …

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