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Visuals in advertising
(2010-03-14)Illustrations, generally composed of subjects, objects, symbols, letters and their combinations, have great value of providing detailed information not easily amenable to written descriptions. While commenting on the ... -
Volatility Modeling, Seasonality and Risk-Return Relationship in GARCH-in-Mean Framework: The Case of Indian Stock and Commodity Markets
(2009-07-30)This paper is based on an empirical study of volatility, risk premium and seasonality in risk-return relation of the Indian stock and commodity markets. This investigation is conducted by means of the General Autoregressive ... -
Voluntary action in India: role, trends and challenges
(2009-12-12)The paper discusses the role of modern voluntary organizations. The analytical categories of developmental, mobilization and political roles have been formulated to understand the impact of voluntary organizations on ... -
Vote aggregators : some axiomatic characterizations
(2010-01-18)In this paper a model for the aggregation of ballot profiles is considered. In this framework three new results are obtained: the characterization of oligarchic aggregators, the characterization of the plurality aggregator ... -
Wage determination for self-employed persons: some methodological explorations
(2010-03-29)The methodological problems of determining a fair economic return ("wages") for services rendered by a group of self employed workers have been discussed. Four alternatives have been considered and their relative merits explored. -
Wage differentials between sexes in India - an explanation
(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
(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 ... -
Wage share in Indian manufacturing industries: 1961 to 1978-79
(2010-03-14)The objective of this study is to test the hypothesis that the share of wages in net value added will tend to decline in the early stages of industrial development. The data are drawn from the Annual survey of industries. ... -
Wage structure in consumer goods and capital goods industries in India
(2010-03-21)An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the wage structure in consumer goods industries in relation to that in capital goods industries in the light of the two major hypotheses, viz., 'the expected ability to pay ... -
Wageindex analytical report India; wages and working conditions in the IT sector
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Wages in India: towards a national policy
(2010-03-13)The objective of this paper is to review the empirical understanding of wage trends and wage differentials in Indian industries. The studies undertaken by various researchers differ in terms of their variables, coverage ... -
War for talent HR challenge of our times
(2010-04-06)The concept of modern management is primarily concerned with the planning and development of HR. the man behind the machine has rightly become the focus of attention with a sense of responsibility to make most of the ... -
Watering system for potted plants
(2010-03-31)This paper deals with design of a watering system for a large number of potted plants that form part of a landscape. Installation of the system was motivated by a desire to save labour, time and water. The system now in ... -
The way out of the current macroeconomic mess: a note
(2013-11-25)The current situation of a large CAD, low growth, and plunging rupee is a result the combination of early withdrawal from the fiscal stimulus and the RBI’s monetary conservatism. There is possibly a way out if credit can ... -
Weak localization and the utilitarian choice function: a note
(2009-12-12)In axiomatic bargaining (choice theory), a choice function of some importance is the utilitarian choice function. Basically, this choice function selects the vector of utilities whose sum is greatest, among all utility ... -
Web content analysis of online grocery shopping web sites in india
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03-04)In this paper the authors evaluate online grocery shopping web sites catering to customers primarily in India. The process of evaluation has been carried out in 3 parts; by comparing the web content on their homepages, ... -
Weighted fair division problem
(2010-01-18)The exact problem we are concerned with in this paper is of the following nature. There are a finite number of producers each equipped with a utility function of the standard variety, which converts and input into a producer ...