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Lambert Richard D |
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The transformation of an Indian labor market : the case of Pune / / by Richard D. Lambert, Ralph B. Ginsberg, Sarah J. Moore |
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Amsterdam, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986 |
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1-283-42463-0 |
9786613424631 |
90-272-7914-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (259 p.) |
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Collana |
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University of Pennsylvania studies on South Asia, , 0169-0361 ; ; v. 3 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GinsbergRalph B |
MooreSarah J |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Labor supply - India - Pune |
Labor market - India - Pune |
Quality of work life - India - Pune |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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THE TRANSFORMATION OF AN INDIAN LABOR MARKET THE CASE OF PUNE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter I. The Problem and the Data; Data Sources; Chapter II. Leaving a Job in the Old Labor Market; Who Left and Why; Separations Predicted by One Variable at a Time; Voluntary Versus Involuntary Departure; Chapter III. Getting Another Job in the Old Market; Leaving the Factory; The Unemployed; Time Until Next Job; Looking for a Job; Who Was Hired First; Residence and Job Changes; The Old Job and the New Job; Leaving the Factory Sector; Non-Factory Jobs |
Factory JobsSkill Transfer; Wages and Job Change; Interrelation of Job Change Features; Subjective Job Comparisons; Summary of Old Labor Market; Chapter IV. Applicants and Hired in the New Labor Market; Aggregate Supply and Demand; Occupation-Specific Supply and Demand; The Geographic Domain of the Market; The Growth of an Educated Manpower Supply; Applicants Without Job Experience; Experienced Applicants; Occupational Inheritance; Current Generation Occupational Specificity; Market Stratification by Jobs Applied for; Who Was Hired?; The Job Search Among Those Hired |
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Skill Transfer by Those HiredWage Gains; Summary; Chapter V. Job Changing in the New Market; The Volume of Turnover; Why Workers Changed Jobs; Discharged Workers Versus Quits; Who the Leavers Were; Predictors of Unemployment; Time Between Jobs; Localization of the Market; Factory-to-Factory Re-employment; Who Remained in the Factory Sector?; Comparing Jobs; Skill Transfer; Wage Changes; Comparative Job Satisfaction; Interrelationships Among Job Exchange Features; Summary; Chapter VI. Summary and Conclusions; The Old and the New Market Compared; Selectivity; Education; Migration History; Sex |
Family CharacteristicsAttitudes; Last Job; Job Search Strategies; Chapter VII. An Agenda for Future Research; Appendix A. A Note on Methods of Data Analysis; Logit Regression, Ordinary Least Squares, and Discriminant Analysis; Other Methods: Structures We Failed to Find; Appendix B. Surveyof Factory Labor in Pune, 1963-1964Richard D. LambertQuestionnaire; Appendix C. Applicant Questionnaire; Indices |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book presents the results of a series of studies of the labor markets in Pune, a medium-sized city in India. In the seven-year period over which these studies were carried out, Pune was transformed from a quiet administrative and educational center with a few isolated, relatively low technology factories, employing mostly unskilled and semi-skilled laborers, into a major manufacturing city with a substantial number of large-scale factories producing a diverse set of products, requiring high technology and a skilled work force. At the same time there was what is referred to as the Pune urb |
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