employment population, in a particular area. The analysis may reveal regional employment disparities, sometimes severe, between … Romania have certain particularities (features) in terms of employment, which makes some characteristics (demographic …, educational etc.) to impart significant influence on employment.This paper aims to highlight the features of the rural area, in …

Robust economic growth after the initiation of economic reforms and very slow growth of employment has been a cause of … concern. Inability of fast growing sectors to generate employment has also been well exposed. Agriculture despite growing at a … paper while noting the all India trend of negative effect on women's participation in rural workforce present the …

-scale self-help group (SHG) and public works programming in Bihar, India. We use administrative data from the National Rural … Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) from 2013-2020 and merge … regression analysis to examine the impact of the number of SHG members on access to job cards and employment under MGNREGS. We …

India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …

employment. We revisit the validity of the identification strategy that uses the land gradient as an instrumental variable (IV …

attempts to assess the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in terms of accuracy of targeting in West Bengal … and compares it with rest of India. Using non-parametric and parametric methodologies, it aims to explore if poorer and …

An important objective of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme presently known as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural … Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is to raise agricultural productivity through creating different productive assets related …

One of the main issues that concerns policymakers and development scholars working in India is the rapid increase of … rural out-migration over the past two decades. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was … passed in 2005 with a view to curb rural out-migration through guaranteed employment in public works. In this context, using …

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, a large scale public works programme on educational decisions including children … as it has gained substantial importance over the last few years in developing countries including India. The findings …

We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in …