Rural Non-Farm Sector Employment in the North-Eastern Region of India: Determinants and Implications for Wellbeing
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Non-farm; Poverty; Expenditure; North-east; Education; Employment;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- P46 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
- M51 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
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