Browsing Working Papers by Author "Dholakia, Ravindra H."
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State income inequalities and interstate variations in the Growth of real capital stock in India
Dholakia, Bakul H.; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-29)This paper makes an attempt to analyse the behaviour of regional income inequalities and capital inequalities in India. It also seeks to examine the relationship between the trend in regional income inequality and regional ... -
Sufficient condition for the backward bending supply curve
Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2009-12-12)In several cases where self-consumption of the production by the producer-cum-consumer is important, public policy debates often consider inter alia the issue of backward bending supply curve of the product. In the present ... -
Technical progress in Indian agriculture: temporal analysis
Dholakia, Bakul H.; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-07-27)An attempt has been made in this paper to estimate the extent of technical progress in Indian agriculture during the period 1950-51 to 1988-89. An analysis of the sources of growth of Indian agriculture is also presented ... -
Temporal behaviour of rural-urban migration and extent of urbanization
Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-14)he paper views the phenomenon of rural-urban migration in terms of relative growth of urban areas. Four factors influencing the relative growth of urban areas are identified. They are :- (i) dependency ratio in urban areas ... -
Trade, technology and wage effects of the economic policy reforms on the Indian private corporate sector
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Kapur, Deepak (2009-12-12)The economic growth achieved in India after 1991 bears an imprint of the economic policy reforms which were accelerated in 1991 with a shift in development strategy towards increasing liberalisation and globalisation of ... -
Transfer Payments and Other Determinants of Working Poverty in Canada 1971-90
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Dholakia, Archana R. (2012-10-17)Government policy of reducing transfer payments drastically is based on arguments of strong preference for leisure by the beneficiaries. Since this has direct bearing on working poverty, empirical evidence on the relationship ... -
Trends in regional disparity in human and social development in India
Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-04-03)In the present paper, we have examind trends in regional disparity in human and social development by considering numerous indicators other than state income. we found no support to the general impression prevailing in the ... -
Trends in Technical Progress in India Analysis of Input-Output Tables from 1968 to 2003
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Agarwalla, Astha; Bazaz, Amir Bashir; Agarwal, Prasoon (2011-05-26)The paper is based on the eight input-output (I-O) tables for the Indian economy available over a period of 36 years from 1968-69 to 2003-4. The technical progress (TP) in the context of the I-O tables is based on the ... -
Urban - Rural income differentials in India: an inter-regional analysis
Dholakia, Bakul H.; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-13)The present study aims at 1) estimating the magnitude of urban-rural per capital income differentials in Indian economy, 2) measuring the extent of inter-state variations in the urban-rural per capita income differential, ... -
Urban – rural income differential in major states: contribution of structural factors
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Pandya, Manish; Pateriya, Payal M. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)In this paper, we have attempted to estimate the urban – rural income differential (URID) for 15 major states based on readily available data on GSDP by sectors, population and employment by sectors and urban – rural ... -
Wage differentials between sexes in India - an explanation
Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-23)Persistent wage differential between male and female workers in any economy is generally sought to be explained by the hypotheses of job discrimination or sex discrimination. In the conditions prevalent in the Indian labour ... -
Wage elasticity of labour supply for males and females
Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-24)Male-female wage differential in the Indian economy can be explained satisfactorily by the model of wage discriminating monopsony provided that the wage elasticities of supply of male and female labour are significantly ... -
What determines performance gap index of healthcare in Gujarat?
Iyengar, Shreekant; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Health performance of Gujarat viewed in terms of the Human Development Index (HDI) portrays it as a medium performer in the country. However, the index of health component for Gujarat is found to be positively contributing ...