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The Benefits and Costs of Guest Worker Programs : Experimental Evidence from the India-UAE Migration Corridor
Naidu, Suresh; Nyarko, Yaw; Wang, Shing-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate the individual returns to temporary migration programs using a randomized experiment with several thousand … job seekers in India applying to guest worker jobs in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Working with construction companies … framework to workers who decline the UAE job offer, we find large and positive pecuniary returns to migration, even including …
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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 … compare changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows … in making progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The …
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The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on COVID-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration
Burlig, Fiona; Sudarshan, Anant; Schlauch, Garrison - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
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Traditional Institutions in Modern Times : Dowries as Pensions When Sons Migrate
Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Voena, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines whether an important cultural institution in India - dowry - can enable male migration by … increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of … confirms that migration rates are higher in areas with stronger historical dowry traditions. Finally, exploiting a large …
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Labor Rationing
Breza, Emily; Kaur, Supreet; Shamdasani, Yogita - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper measures excess labor supply in equilibrium. We examine hiring shocks--which employ 24% of the labor force in external month-long jobs--in Indian local labor markets. In peak months, wages increase instantaneously and local aggregate employment declines. In lean months, consistent...
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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 - 2003
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
the implementation of India's employment guarantee. Without changing government expenditure, this reform raised low …
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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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