This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare …-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways shifted employment from the farm to the nonfarm sector, and that this shift was …, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …

(employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on …, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points …

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 …

meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act … (NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses causal impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of NREGA …. -- difference-in-difference ; intent-to-treat ; NREGA ; rural India …

We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …

decline in employment in recent months as well as declines in consumer spending. While lockdowns have pronounced effects on …

the effectiveness of a prominent place-based policy in India: the centrally sponsored New Industrial Policy for the state … implementation of the New Industrial Policy. The findings show that there was a significant and abrupt increase in employment at the … for certain industries. The paper finds that the increase in cross-border employment is higher for sectors receiving …

effects of CA-PFL. Rights to paid leave are also associated with higher work and employment probabilities for mothers nine to …

care for a spouse has not been studied widely. We examine the effects of California's law on the employment of workers who … the paid leave program increased the employment of 45-64 year old women with a disabled spouse in California by around 0 …, with a 2.9 percentage point rise in private sector employment. The employment of men with a disabled spouse in California …

This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the … employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased …' employment. Further, mothers who left or lost their jobs appear to have dropped out of the labor force even several months after …