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We study the aggregate labor force participation behavior of women over a 25-year period in Turkey using a synthetic panel approach. In our decomposition of age, year, and cohort effects, we use three APC models that have received close scrutiny of the demography community. We rely on...
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development level rises. For instance, the negative effects of the refugee shock on employment and labor force participation of … refugees on employment of men is negative for the least developed regions, it is positive for highly developed regions. Our …
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. Despite the massive size of the migrant influx, no adverse effects on the average wages of men or women or on total employment … of men are observed. For women, however, total employment falls - which results mainly from the elimination of part … effects on complementary workers in the formal sector. We estimate about one-to-one replacement in employment for native men …
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We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
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female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in … India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women … reservations ; gender ; NREGA ; India …
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Unlike the global trend, India has witnessed a secular decline in women's employment rates over the past few decades … affected female labor force participation rates in India. …
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We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India …
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information experiment in rural India. Treatment villages were randomly assigned to receive information about negative health …
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This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We rank the performance of 19 major Indian states on two large development programs launched by the Indian...
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We use high frequency worker level productivity data from garment manufacturing units in India to study the effects of …
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