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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...

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Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021

We often observe minority ethnic groups at a disadvantage relative to the majority. Why is this and what can be done about it? Efforts made to assimilate, and time, are two elements working to bring the minority into line with the majority. A third element, the degree to which the majority...

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Do Reemployment Programs for the Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States

Michaelides, Marios - 2020

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients during the Great Recession. The three programs that emphasized monitoring and service referrals reduced UI receipt but had minimal effects on employment and...

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Recent Extensions of U.S. Unemployment Benefits : Search Responses in Alternative Labor Market States

Valletta, Robert G. - 2014

In response to the 2007-09 “Great Recession,” the maximum duration of U.S. unemployment benefits was increased from the normal level of 26 weeks to an unprecedented 99 weeks. I estimate the impact of these extensions on job search, comparing them with the more limited extensions associated...

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The Early History of Program Evaluation and the U.S. Department of Labor

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2014

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Political Activism as a Determinant of Clientelistic Transfers : Evidence from an Indian Public Works Program

Chau, Nancy H. - 2018

Are political activists preferentially targeted by politicians engaging in clientelistic transfers to bolster political support? We provide the first model to highlight two possible rationales for such transfers: to mobilize support from the activists themselves, or to mobilize support from...

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The Joint Effects of a Health Insurance and a Public Works Scheme in Rural Ethiopia

Shigute, Zemzem - 2017

Rural households in Ethiopia are exposed to a variety of covariate and idiosyncratic risks. In 2005, the Ethiopian government introduced the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and in 2011 launched the Community Based Health Insurance Scheme (CBHI). This paper analyses the interaction between...

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The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices

Neilson, Chris - 2011

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...

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Customer Discrimination and Ethnic Team Composition

Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik; Wolters, Leonie - 2023

This paper examines the relationship between customer preferences and ethnic team composition in German professional soccer. Ethnic team composition is measured using facial recognition techniques, player names, and nationality. The study uses a difference-in-differences approach to show that...

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Disability, Gender and Hiring Discrimination : A Field Experiment

Bjørnshagen, Vegar; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Ugreninov, Elisabeth - 2023

This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of … heterogeneity in levels of disability discrimination against men and women on average across occupations or by occupational gender … segregation. However, levels of discrimination differ considerably among occupations, varying from no evidence of disability …

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