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Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy : Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
There has been little rigorous evaluation of immigration barriers intended to improve domestic terms of employment by shrinking the workforce. We study one such barrier, a policy change that excluded almost half a million Mexican bracero seasonal agricultural workers from the United States....
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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows more … progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The responsiveness …
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The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on Covid-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration
Burlig, Fiona; Sudarshan, Anant; Schlauch, Garrison - 2021
using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
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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 …
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Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations and Labor-Demand Elasticities : Empirical Evidence from India
Hasan, Rana; Mitra, Devashish; Ramaswamy, K. V. - 2021
Using industry-level data disaggregated by states, this paper finds a positive impact of trade liberalization on labor-demand elasticities in the Indian manufacturing sector. These elasticities turn out to be negatively related to protection levels that vary across industries and over time....
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General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs : Experimental Evidence from India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2017
population of 62,500 each) that improved the implementation of India's national rural employment guarantee scheme. The reform …
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Imperfect Substitution between Immigrants and Natives : A Reappraisal
Borjas, George J. - 2008
In a recent paper, Ottaviano and Peri (2007a) report evidence that immigrant and native workers are not perfect substitutes within narrowly defined skill groups. The resulting complementarities have important policy implications because immigration may then raise the wage of many native-born...
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Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth
Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2014
This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite … migration are used to link caste networks to household and aggregate mobility. Our key finding, consistent with the hypothesis … smooth consumption in rural India for the foreseeable future, as they have for centuries, unless alternative consumption …
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HIV Status and Labor Market Participation in South Africa
Levinsohn, James A. - 2011
Because individuals with HIV are more likely to fall into poverty, and the poor may be at higher risk of contracting HIV, simple estimates of the effect of HIV status on economic outcomes will tend to be biased. In this paper, we use two econometric methods based on the propensity score to...
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Health Shocks, Insurance Status and Net Worth : Intra- and Inter-Generational Effects
Conley, Dalton - 2011
An extensive literature has documented a robust correlation between socioeconomic status--measured in a variety of ways--and health outcomes; however, much uncertainty remains regarding what causal processes underlie this association. The present paper builds on a growing literature that seeks...
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