Barriers or catalysts? Traditional institutions and social mobility in rural India
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- Iversen, Vegard & Kundu, Anustup & Lahoti, Rahul & Sen, Kunal, 2023. "Barriers or Catalysts? Traditional Institutions and Social Mobility in Rural India," IZA Discussion Papers 16601, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Keywords
Educational mobility; Occupational mobility; Caste; Land; India; Land tenure;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2023-11-20 (Development)
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