Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job …

Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and …) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment …

examine the role of one of the world’s largest employment guarantee schemes, India’s MG-NREGA, in cushioning job losses in one … capacity to provide public work under the scheme showed relatively smaller employment losses during the pandemic. Consequently … areas in April-August 2020 by 7% overall and by 74% for rural women, over baseline employment rate. These cushioning effects …

We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in …

analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment … opportunity cost of employment. …

analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment … opportunity cost of employment. …

earnings in subsequent employment. Any evaluation needs to take into account that some of those who are not trained at a …