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Is a Decentralized Right-to-Work Policy Feasible?
Ravallion, Martin - 2019
Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is often rationed by local leaders in poor areas, and that this is an important factor limiting the scheme's impact on poverty. The paper offers explanations for this empirical...
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Trade Policy, Income, and Employment
Baldwin, Robert E. - 1984
Disappointing recent growth rates, the emergence of structurally unfavorable income and employment conditions, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477773
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Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel
Lang, Kevin - 2011
In this paper we compare the labor market performance of Israeli students who graduated from one of the leading universities, Hebrew University (HU), with those who graduated from a professional undergraduate college, College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS). Our results support a model in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461928
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Prevailing Wage Laws and Construction Labor Markets
Kessler, Daniel P. - 1999
Prevailing wage laws, which require that construction workers employed by private contractors on public projects be paid at least the wages and benefits that are "prevailing" for similar work in or near the locality in which the project is located, have been the focus of an extensive policy...
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Regulating Bidder Participation in Auctions
Bhattacharya, Vivek - 2013
Regulating bidder participation in auctions can potentially increase efficiency compared to standard auction formats with free entry. We show that the relative performance of two such mechanisms, a standard first-price auction with free entry and an entry rights auction, depends...
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Procurement and Infrastructure Costs
Liscow, Zachary; Nober, Will; Slattery, Cailin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Infrastructure costs in the United States are high and rising. The procurement process is one potential cost driver. In this paper we conduct a survey of procurement practices across the 50 states. We survey both employees at each state department of transportation (DOT) and the road builders...
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Changes in Black-White Inequality : Evidence from the Boll Weevil
Clay, Karen - 2020
This paper investigates the effect of a large negative agricultural shock, the boll weevil, on black-white inequality in the first half of the twentieth century. To do this we use complete count census data to generate a linked sample of fathers and their sons. We find that the boll weevil...
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Jobs and Kids : Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China
Fang, Hai - 2010
Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship between the two should be better understood. Causality...
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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production
Fink, Günther - 2018
Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary … source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice per year, and has to cover consumption and … more liquidity-constrained farms. This reallocation reduces consumption and income inequality among treated farmers and …
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Effects of Emigration on Rural Labor Markets
Akram, Agha Ali - 2017
Bangladesh, randomly varying saturation of offers across 133 villages. The transport subsidies increase beneficiaries' income due … available work hours in the village by 11-14%, which combine to increase income earned in the village, (c) There is no intra …
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