Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment … affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … between the two should be better understood. Causality flows in both directions. A conceptual model shows how employment …

Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is … when the center wants to honor the employment guarantee. Two main drivers of such rationing are identified: local …

India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within … three years. The program quarantees 100 days of employment per year at minimum wage to each rural household on demand, with … employment impact on various types of crimes, ranging from burglary to kidnapping to riots. We show that the program acts as an …

not adjust back down. This ratcheting effect generates a 9% reduction in employment levels. Inflation enables downward …

points relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the … most important determinant of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than half of the … gender gap in this hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female …

or younger. In contrast, surviving Indian plants exhibit little growth in terms of either employment or output. Mexico is … intermediate to India and the U.S. in these respects: the average 40 year old Mexican plant employs twice as many workers as an … aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …

We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry … experienced during 1996-2005 in business, professional and technical services i.e., in segments where China and India have been …