Essays about: "INDIAN LABOUR"

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1. 1. Climatic complexity: how do early life weather shocks affect labour income?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Julio Ortega Carrillo; [2022]
   Keywords : Foetal origins hypothesis; Mediation Analysis; weather shocks; Young Lives.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the impact of extreme weather events during gestation and infancy on multiple outcomes, especially early labour income. The subjects are Indian children born between 1993/94 from the Young Lives longitudinal study. The weather shocks are extracted from the NOAA geo-referenced weather data. READ MORE

3. 2. Expertise and Performative Legitimation in Consumer-led Governance Initiatives: - A Case Study of GoodWeave India

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Arthur Joseph Kearney; [2020]
   Keywords : Performativity; Legitimation; Child-Labour; GoodWeave; Neoliberalism; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The following thesis is an attempt to critically analyse the legitimation claims of Private Transnational Governance (PTGs) initiatives targeting child labour in the Indian carpet belt. Drawing upon the concept of performativity, the research will seek to problematize the tendency to perceive legitimacy in the myopic sense of quantifiable ‘inputs’ and ‘outputs’. READ MORE

4. 3. Development, Education, and Female Labour Force Participation; A Study of India

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Hannah Leadbetter; [2019]
   Keywords : Development Education Gender Labour Force Participation Caste; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : With the development and structural transformation of an economy the dynamics of labour force participation change. The female experience of development and labour force participation is different to that of the male. READ MORE

5. 4. Minimum Wages and Poverty in India

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Viktor Lindelöw; [2019]
   Keywords : Minimum Wage; Poverty; India; Labour Market; Monopsony; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : A minimum wage policy has often been implemented to get workers out of poverty. However, the policy’s impact has been questioned, both theoretically and empirically, whether it fulfils its purpose. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of minimum wage on poverty in India. READ MORE

6. 5. How can child labour schemes help mainstream child labourers back to school? A case study of NCLP in Kolkata

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Linnea Kornum; [2018]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Child labour has been an issue which many governments and NGOs has tried to solve through various schemes, projects and acts. There is a universal agreement that education can help child labourers back to school, but there is a disagreement on how to do this. READ MORE