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Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India : The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Afridi, Farzana - 2012
We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
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Local Funds and Political Competition : Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
Gupta, Bhanu - 2014
Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India which was introduced by the Indian National Congress (INC). Using longitudinal data … on funds sanctioned and election results from three rounds of elections in Rajasthan, a state in India, we find an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053523
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Skills Training and Employment Outcomes in Rural Bihar
Chakravorty, Bhaskar - 2017
In a number of countries, youth unemployment is a pressing economic and political concern. In India, 54 percent of the … youth employment, the Government of India has launched a number of skills training programs. This paper deals with … participation in and the impact of one of these programs (DDUJKY) located in rural Bihar, one of India's poorest states. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948694
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Lockdown and Rural Joblessness in India : Gender Inequality in Employment?
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083707
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Forced Off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China
Mu, Ren - 2017
Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. We argue that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960251
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Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization, and Undocumented Labor Mobility in Rural China (1982-87)
Chen, Yiu Por - 2015
This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and fiscal authority to local governments, and the emergence of rural-rural undocumented inter-provincial labor migration during China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023009
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Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply : Evidence from Rural China
Li, Hongbin - 2015
This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the endogeneity problem, we use a unique survey on households with twin children and a comparison group of non-twin households. The ordinary least squares estimates show a negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015013
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What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?
Klasen, Stephan - 2014
We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013062918
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Income Guarantees and Borrowing in Risky Environments : Evidence from India's Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Bell, Clive - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of an income guarantee on borrowing to smooth consumption and finance cultivation in a risky setting with marked seasonality. A three-season, infinite-horizon theoretical model is developed and analyzed. The insights yielded by the model are then used to...
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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