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 workdays under the scheme generated relatively higher employment 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 …

This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among … urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post … did not experience any significant impact on employment post pandemic, as reported by their husbands. Second, we document …

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

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 …

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

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

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 …

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. …