Rural non-farm development plays a key role in generating employment in many developing countries. Clustering is an …

/year-specific correlated shocks, show that (1) the relative size of the migrant population in the market decreases employment probabilities of … new migrants (negative substitution effect), (2) the employment probability of previous migrants increases those of new … migrants (positive externalities), and (3) when the employment probability of previous migrants approaches to unity, the size …

debate by assessing the induced gender employment bias of current taxation policies in these countries. It explores the … pattern of male and female employment and discusses the indirect tax distortions across sectors within each country and … between countries. The possible impact of the indirect tax distortion on male and female employment is quantitatively assessed …

generated additional jobs, but the share of employment growth from these sectors was small and skewed more toward higher …

India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the largest public works employment … project in the world. Its most direct poverty reduction pathway is through boosting employment and income for the poor. How …

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works programs globally …