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Workforce Development in India: Policies and Practices
Majumdar, Shyamal - eSocialSciences - 2008
The task of workforce development in India faces the changing realities of globalization and competitiveness, on one hand, and the need for inclusive growth on the other. This report focuses on the issues, practices, challenges, and policy directions for workforce development in India,...
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Creating Jobs in India’s Organised Manufacturing Sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - eSocialSciences - 2014
employment in this sector is examined. It is found that there are heterogeneities in the performance of the manufacturing sector …
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Equity in the Time of Recession: Mumbai Youth Struggle to Bridge Yawning Opportunity Gap
eSS, eSocialSciences - eSocialSciences - 2011
Mumbai is the capital of Maharashtra, a large highly industrialised, progressive state that until a decade ago, reported remarkable progress on social and economic indices. Today, it is still a leading state, but its social indices have deteriorated. This is evidence of its poor performance on...
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Informalization of Industrial Labour in India: Are labour market rigidities and growing import competition to blame?
Goldar, Bishwanath - eSocialSciences - 2010
: rising share of the unorganized sector in manufacturing employment and informalization of the organized manufacturing sector … in India. An econometric model is estimated for this purpose using unit level data of the NSS 61st round employment … casual employment among workers with education above primary. The results also show that education enhances the probability …
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The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2007
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2008
The Bill seeks to amend the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961.
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AT Times When Limbs May Fail: Social Security for Unorganised Workers in Karnataka
Rajasekhar, D.; Suchitra J.Y.; Madheshwaran S.; … - eSocialSciences - 2006
Policy makers, therefore, often encounter the following questions while formulating the social security schemes. What are the priority social security needs of unorganized workers? What existing mechanisms and strategies do they use to meet the social security needs? Do social security needs and...
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Unorganised Sector Worker's Social Security Bill 2007
Labour, Minister of State for; Employment - eSocialSciences - 2007
A bill to provide for the social security and welfare of unorganised sector workers and for other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
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Entry Threats and Inefficiency in ‘Efficient Bargaining’
Pal, Rupayan; Saha, Bibhas - eSocialSciences - 2010
Whether the outcome of bargaining over wage and employment between an incumbent firm and a union remains efficient … wage is not observed, contracts feature over-employment. Under separating equilibrium the low type is over-employed, and … under entry threat is examined. The workers\' reservation wage is not known to the entrant, and entry is profitable only …
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Liberalisation and Wage Inequality In India
Banga, Rashmi - eSocialSciences - 2007
productivity and wage inequality in the Indian manufacturing sector, namely FDI, trade and technological progress. The study has … have a differential impact on the wages of skilled and unskilled workers. Wage inequality is found to have increased …
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Third Quarter Review of Annual Monetary Policy for the Year 2007-08
Reddy, Y V - eSocialSciences - 2008
Review consists of three sections: I. Assessment of Macroeconomic and Monetary Developments; II. Stance of Monetary Policy; and III. Monetary Measures. An analytical profile of macroeconomic and monetary developments was issued a day in advance as a supplement to this Review, providing the...
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