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Vegard Iversen
Researcher at University of Manchester
Publications - 60
Citations - 1413
Vegard Iversen is an academic researcher from University of Manchester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Productivity & Poverty. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 59 publications receiving 1277 citations. Previous affiliations of Vegard Iversen include University of East Anglia & Indian Statistical Institute.
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What the signboard hides : Food, caste and employability in small south indian eating places
Vegard Iversen,P.S. Raghavendra +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored trajectories of social change within small South Indian eating places, popularly known as Udupi hotels, during the second half of the 20th century such enterprises absorbed a large number of unskilled migrants, mainly from Karnataka's coastal belt.
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Literacy Sharing, Assortative Mating, or What? Labour Market Advantages and Proximate Illiteracy Revisited
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between household literacy and the labour market outcomes of illiterate household members which Basu, Narayan and Ravallion (2002) report using Household Income and Expenditure data from Bangladesh.
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On the Colonial Origins of Agricultural Development in India: A Re-examination of Banerjee and Iyer, ‘History, Institutions and Economic Performance’
TL;DR: This article found no evidence that agricultural performance of Indian districts in the post-independence period was adversely affected by the landlord land revenue system in Central Provinces, which BI characterise as landlord based.
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Job Recruitment Networks and Migration to Cities in India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and tested an alternative explanation for the high prevalence of network-based labour market entry in developing countries by using employee networks as screening and incentive mechanisms to improve the quality of recruitment.
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TV, female empowerment and demographic change in rural India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a list of figures and tables and abbreviations and acronyms and discuss the relationship between figures, tables, and graphs, using the terms Abbreviation and Abbreviations.