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Md. Mohsin , S. Sridevi , B. Kamaiah

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The objective of this study is to verify Wagner's law in the context of a group of twenty developing countries with the aid of elasticity, casuaity, cointegration and error-correction approaches. The cointegration tests confirm the presence of long-run relationship between national income and government expenditure in most of the sample countries. Though the evidences from elasticity, Granger causality test and error-correction models are somewhat mixed, the overall weight of the findings is in favour of the law. This revealation, however, is significant especially when several previous studies have questioned the validity of the law by relying exclusively on the Granger tests.

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V. Nirmala , K. Sham Bhat , Md. Mohsin , B. Kamaiah

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Work participation models were estimated using OLS and Tobit methods to investigate into the behavioural response of married women with living husbands in Pondicherry region. Data for the study were collected through personal interviews during April 1990 and 1991 from two samples of 125 women each, residing in urban and rural areas respectively, thus contributing a total sample of 250 observations. The analysis revealed a1most identical and significant response of women to change in education and income variables, regardless of regional differences. However, the response to child variables and dependents in family varied considerably across the rural and urban samples. The Chow test conducted to examine whether the sets of coefficients for the rural and urban samples remained the same, showed that the overall pattern of labour participation behaviour was significantly distinct between the two regions in Pondicherry.

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