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Is a Decentralized Right-to-Work Policy Feasible?
Ravallion, Martin - 2019
Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is often rationed by local leaders in poor areas, and that this is an important factor limiting the scheme's impact on poverty. The paper offers explanations for this empirical...
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Why is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel
Lang, Kevin - 2011
In this paper we compare the labor market performance of Israeli students who graduated from one of the leading universities, Hebrew University (HU), with those who graduated from a professional undergraduate college, College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS). Our results support a model in...
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Regulating Bidder Participation in Auctions
Bhattacharya, Vivek - 2013
Regulating bidder participation in auctions can potentially increase efficiency compared to standard auction formats with free entry. We show that the relative performance of two such mechanisms, a standard first-price auction with free entry and an entry rights auction, depends...
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Prevailing Wage Laws and Construction Labor Markets
Kessler, Daniel P.; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021
Prevailing wage laws, which require that construction workers employed by private contractors on public projects be paid at least the wages and benefits that are "prevailing" for similar work in or near the locality in which the project is located, have been the focus of an extensive policy...
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Effects of Emigration on Rural Labor Markets
Akram, Agha - 2017
Bangladesh, randomly varying saturation of offers across 133 villages. The transport subsidies increase beneficiaries' income due … available work hours in the village by 11-14%, which combine to increase income earned in the village, (c) There is no intra …
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Seasonal Credit Constraints and Agricultural Labor Supply : Evidence from Zambia
Fink, Günther - 2014
Small-scale farming remains the primary source of income for a majority of the population in developing countries …
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Analyzing the Impact of the World's Largest Public Works Project on Crime
Das, Satadru - 2016
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 the goal of reducing joblessness and poverty. We...
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Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets
Kaur, Supreet - 2014
This paper tests for downward nominal wage rigidity by examining transitory shifts in labor demand, generated by rainfall shocks, in 600 Indian districts from 1956-2009. Nominal wages rise in response to positive shocks but do not fall during droughts. In addition, transitory positive shocks...
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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production
Fink, Günther - 2018
Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary … source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice per year, and has to cover consumption and … more liquidity-constrained farms. This reallocation reduces consumption and income inequality among treated farmers and …
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Jobs and Kids : Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China
Fang, Hai - 2010
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...
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