Does affirmative action reduce productivity? A case study of the indian railways

World Development

Volumn 64, Issue , 2014, Pages 169-180

  Deshpande, Ashwini ^a   Weisskopf, Thomas E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Affirmative action; Asia; India; Labor markets; Productivity; Railways

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MARKET; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; RAILWAY;

INDIA;

EID: 84904673850     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.05.024     Document Type: Article

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