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Post-reform Trends in Wage-Differentials: A Decomposition Analysis for India
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Wage inequality often creates much broader socio-economic inequality and may even accentuate them. For attaining equitable development convergence in wages and earnings is therefore desirable. This paper explores trends and patterns in wage differentials in India in the post reform period. Using...
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Women Employment in The New Economy: Clouds and Some Sunshine
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
in terms of high growth and high share in total employment in recent times. It is observed that women employment is … the new economy a trade-off is observed between women employment expansion and their wage condition. There also exists an … established sector where women have traditionally been accepted and are having stable employment and wage condition. In few …
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Pensionamento flessibile e (ri)equilibrio tra generazioni
Salerno, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
seems the most appropriate manner to combine and pursue employment and financial sustainability goals. The method computes …
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The Employment Cycles of Neighboring Cities
Wall, Howard J. - 2011
This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of …-similar employment cycles, but neighboring cities with similar racial compositions tend to have less-similar employment cycles …
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Intergenerational mobility in educational & occupational attainment: a comparative study of social classes in India
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Discrimination against specific ethnic groups transcends the boundary of current generation and perpetuates across future generations as well. This is manifested as low Intergenerational Mobility in terms of both Education and Occupation in developing countries in general, and among specific...
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The impact of body weight on occupational mobility and career development
Harris, Matthew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between individuals' weight and their employment decisions over the life cycle. I … also allows individuals' employment decisions to affect body weight. I use conditional density estimation to formulate the …
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Agricultural Productivity Differences and Credit Market Imperfections
Nishida, Keigo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper presents a simple model to examine the implication of credit market imperfections when considering the massive variation of agricultural labor productivity across countries. The development of credit markets enables more agents to acquire skills to work in non-agricultural sectors....
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The Inter-Related Dynamics of Dual Job Holding, Human Capital and Occupational Choice
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Panos, Georgios; Zangelidis, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
new primary jobs, particularly self-employment. …
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Occupational Choice and Dynamic Indeterminacy
Mino, Kazuo; Koji, Shimomura; Wang, Ping - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This paper construct a two-sector model of two-period lived overlapping generations with endogenous occupational choice where ability-heterogeneous agents choose whether to become educated when young and henceforth to become skilled when old. We show that endogenous occupational choice in this...
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Estimation of an Occupational Choice Model when Occupations are Misclassified
Sullivan, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper examines occupational choices using a discrete choice model that accounts for the fact that self-reported occupation data is measured with error. Despite evidence from validation studies which suggests that there is a substantial amount of measurement error in self-reported...
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