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Aggregate Effects from Public Works : Evidence from India
Cook, C. Justin - 2020
This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS …
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Did Latvia's Public Works Program Mitigate the Impact of the 2008-2010 Crisis?
Azam, Mehtabul - 2012
To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia established Workplaces with Stipends, an emergency public works program that targeted registered unemployed people who were not receiving unemployment benefits. This paper evaluates...
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Labor Market Impacts of a Large-Scale Public Works Program : Evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme
Zimmermann, Laura - 2012
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in using public-works programs as anti-poverty measures in developing countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of the most ambitious programs of its kind, by using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099714
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The Impact of Indian Job Guarantee Scheme on Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Azam, Mehtabul - 2012
(NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses causal impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of NREGA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106290
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Welfare Implications of India's Employment Guarantee Programme with a Wage Payment Delay
Basu, Parantap - 2015
) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could …
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Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification Among Dalits in Rural India
Gang, Ira N. - 2012
The caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111178
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Does Workfare Work Well? The Case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh
Cho, Yoonyoung - 2018
Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the relatively well-established role of public works during economic crisis as a social safety net. This paper contributes to evidence building by examining the impact of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920446
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Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets : Optimum Compensation and Workers' Welfare
Basu, Arnab K. - 2011
The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124790
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Employment Guaranteed? Social Protection During a Pandemic
Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - 2021
examine the role of one of the world's largest employment guarantee schemes, India's MG-NREGA, in cushioning job losses in one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246895
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The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany : A Microeconometric Evaluation
Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021
In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long-term unemployed and other hard-to-place individuals. Access to very...
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