Intergenerational Mobility A Study of Social Classes in India
Discrimination and exclusion in the process of capability formation and the labor market transcend the boundaries of the current generation and spill over to successive generations as well. Though a plethora of work has been done at the international leve
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Rajarshi Majumder
Intergenerational Mobility A Study of Social Classes in India
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Rajarshi Majumder Department of Economics University of Burdwan Burdwan, West Bengal India
ISSN 2191-5504 ISBN 978-81-322-1129-7 DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-1130-3
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Acknowledgments
I was sensitised to the issue of disparities across social classes in India by none other than Prof. SK Thorat, my teacher at JNU, later Chairman of University Grants Commission of India and presently Chairman, Indian Council of Social Science Research. During my long periods of research on this disparity as manifested in the labour market, I was perplexed by the fact that a majority of the lagging social classes seem to have remained stuck in traditional low paying occupations over generations and rarely imbibe human capital so necessary today for climbing up the socioeconomic ladder. The seeds of the curre
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