' seasonal agricultural workers from the United States, with the stated goal of raising wages and employment for domestic farm ….S. agricultural wages or employment, and find that important mechanisms for this result include both adoption of less labor …

-level data from the Census of Agriculture, we show that the adoption of milking machines triggered a process of structural …

-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We … significant only in agriculture, which can be attributed to the heavily underreported income from self-employed workers in …

(NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses causal impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of NREGA … on public works participation, labor force participation, and real wages of casual workers by exploiting its phased … significant positive impact on the wages of female casual workers-real wages of female casual workers increased 8% more in NREGA …

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …

is associated with higher consumption and increases in local farming wages. Our results suggest that a substantial …