wages and income, but the effect on hired labor is ambiguous; it depends on the strength of reallocation of labor from home … agricultural productivity, and using subdistrict level panel data from Bangladesh, this paper finds significant positive effects of … a favorable rainfall shock on agricultural wages, labor supply to market work, and per capita household expenditure. The …

. This study has assessed the empirical evidence for such a claim in the case of Bangladesh by evaluating unique employer …-employee matched labor market data. The analysis is based on data collected from 6,981 workers in 500 formal sector firms in Bangladesh … correlations between wages and the so-called "big five" personality traits, and augments the analysis with the latent personality …

the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) - spread through Bangladesh's labor markets. Although the end of the MFA was arguably … exogenous to Bangladesh, the authors instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. The paper compares … estimates of the local labor market effects (wages and informality) and estimates from wage equations that reflect the …