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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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Earnings differences between Chinese and Indian wage earners, 1987 - 2004

Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2008

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent …

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Female labour force participation and child education in India: The effect of the national rural employment guarantee scheme

Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …

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Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …

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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2009

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …

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Reforms, entry and productivity: some evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis; … - 2006

factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India … institutional and legacy factors. We also find evidence to suggest that, in India, entry rates were positively associated with …

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Earnings inequality in India: has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2006

state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …

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