and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both … find that both labor demand and equilibrium wages become more rainfall sensitive when cultivators are offered rainfall … contract offered to agricultural laborers smoothes wages across rainfall states by inducing changes in labor supply. Policy …

We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of … the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting … stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can exacerbate the negative impact of adverse weather on harvest-stage wages …

that exclusion did not affect U.S. agricultural wages or employment. Important mechanisms include adoption of less labor …

, migration and rural wages respond to forecasts. We calculate that if such skill were pervasive across India, the total value of …

rainfall shocks, in 600 Indian districts from 1956-2009. Nominal wages rise in response to positive shocks but do not fall … during droughts. In addition, transitory positive shocks generate ratcheting: after they have dissipated, nominal wages do …

studies in India that provide unique insight into this issue. First, we use a discrete choice experiment to show that patients …

an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and … escalation of high-skill wages. This collection brings together innovative new ideas and data sources in order to provide more … on U.S. wages. This timely volume offers a thorough appraisal of the wage distribution predicament, examining the …

are as follows. First, holding constant individual characteristics, average weekly wages are 11 percent lower in nonprofit …

, despite the global nature of the marketplace, the location of the worker accounts for over a third of the variance in wages …. We also document that remote wages in local currency move almost one-for-one with the dollar exchange rate of the worker …'s country, and are highly sensitive to changes in the wages of foreign competitors. Finally, we provide a new measure on which …