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Short-Term Effects of India's Employment Guarantee Program on Labor Markets and Agricultural Productivity

Deininger, Klaus - 2018

This paper uses a large national household panel from 1999/2000 and 2007/08 to analyze the short-term effects of India …

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Preferential Resource Spending Under an Employment Guarantee : The Political Economy of Mgnregs in Andhra Pradesh

Sheahan, Megan - 2017

influence? This conjecture is investigated using expenditure data at the local level from India's National Rural Employment …

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Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Evidence from Andhra Pradesh

Deininger, Klaus - 2017

This paper uses a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase...

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Evaluating Workfare When the Work is Unpleasant : Evidence for India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2017

theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …

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Does India's Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment?

Dutta, Puja - 2017

In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural … the way it is designed, then anyone who wanted work on the scheme would get it. However, analysis of data from India …

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Toward Labor Market Policy 2.0 : The Potential for Using Online Job-Portal Big Data to Inform Labor Market Policies in India

Nomura, Shinsaku - 2018

Economists and other social scientists are increasingly using big data analytics to address longstanding economic questions and complement existing information sources. Big data produced by online platforms can yield a wealth of diverse, highly granular, multidimensional information with a...

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Labor Regulation and Employment in India's Retail Stores

Amin, Mohammad - 2016

A new dataset of 1,948 retail stores in India compiled by the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys shows that 27 percent of …

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