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This paper is principally focused on the changes in the size and structure of work force and the changes in labour productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st century. The period between 2000 and 2005 saw a sharp acceleration in work force growth, and, on the...
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Round Employment-Unemployment Survey covering the period July 1999 thru June 20001 .Being canvassed over a separate set of … households, the results of the Employment-Unemployment Survey are also free of the controversies surrounding the NSS 55th Round … force and in the unemployment situation in the country in the 1990s through a comparative analysis of the results of the …
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The Indian software industry has grown very rapidly for more than a decade. In this study we report the results of a multivariate statistical analysis of the determinants of sales revenue growth and profit margins of Indian software firms. Based on original firm-level survey data, our SUR...
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Panel studies based on the same set of sample households or individuals at two points of time 5 or 10 years apart are time consuming and are relatively rare in social science research. Such a method, however, was used in the South Asia Migration study (SMS) conducted by the Centre for...
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equilibrium wage will cause unemployment. This paper makes two contributions to the basic theory of the minimum wage. First, we … analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … perspective from unemployment to poverty leads to a considerable enrichment of the theory of the minimum wage. …
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Results from the NSS 61st Round Employment – Unemployment Survey, 2004-05 on the issue of fair access to social …
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workers using micro data from the 2004-05 Employment and Unemployment Survey, NSSO, linked to state-level factors. [IGIDR WP …
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In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economy wide rates of unemployment, we … construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which unemployment is caused by search frictions. The model shows that wage … increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a …
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India is perhaps the first country to set up, at the national level, a commission to study the problems and challenges being faced by what in India is called the unorganized economy - or the informal economy as it is usually referred to internationally – and recommend measures to the...
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This paper examines the labour market characteristics for adults and the entire population. Then it analyses challenges and opportunities in labour market for youth. Next, the paper discusses the existing and needed policies for taking care of the challenges in overall and youth labour markets....
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