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Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes and household welfare : an investigation of India's employment guarantee programme
Basu, Parantap; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2020
administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National … Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a life cycle model, we argue that a long wage payment lag in this flagship … employment options. Empirical evidence based on primary data lends support to our key theoretical prediction that wage payment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198891
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Welfare implications of India's employment guarantee programme with a wage payment delay
Basu, Parantap; Sen, Kunal - 2015
We examine the efficacy of a popular anti-poverty programme, namely the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA …) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could … persists even when the worker has an outside employment option. If a programme of financial inclusion increases the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376265
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Is partisan alignment electorally rewarding? : evidence from village council elections in India
Dey, Subhasish; Sen, Kunal - 2016
allocation of funds for India's largest social protection programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in … the state of West Bengal in India, and whether incumbent local governments (village councils) gain electorally in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493833
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Surplus labour, social structure and rural to urban migration : evidence from Indian data
Dubey, Amaresh; Palmer-Jones, Richard W.; Sen, Kunal - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 18 (2006) 1, pp. 86-104
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328734
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The puzzling decline in rural women's labor force participation in India : a reexamination
Neff, Daniel; Sen, Kunal; Kling, Veronika - 2012
Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why … there is a tendency for women to withdraw from the labor force to attend to domestic duties (income effect), that employment … and partly due to an education effect. We find no evidence of changes in employment opportunities or of social and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009538525
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Networks in the traditional economy : evidence from India
Iversen, Vegard; Sen, Kunal; Verschoor, Arjan; Dubey, … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009583418
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The decline in the labour force participation of rural women in India : taking a long-run view
Dubey, Amaresh; Olsen, Wendy Kay; Sen, Kunal - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 60 (2017) 4, pp. 589-612
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249173
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The Puzzling Decline in Rural Women's Labor Force Participation in India : A Reexamination
Neff, Daniel F.; Sen, Kunal; Kling, Veronika - 2012
Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why … there is a tendency for women to withdraw from the labor force to attend to domestic duties (income effect), that employment … and partly due to an education effect. We find no evidence of changes in employment opportunities or of social and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165913
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The Puzzling Decline in Rural Women’s Labor Force Participation in India : A Reexamination
Neff, Daniel F. - 2012
Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why … there is a tendency for women to withdraw from the labor force to attend to domestic duties (income effect), that employment … and partly due to an education effect. We find no evidence of changes in employment opportunities or of social and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106062
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Moving out of the bottom of the economy? : constraints to firm transition in the Indian informal manufacturing sector
Raj, Rajesh SN; Sen, Kunal - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 10, pp. 1-20
The predominant type of firms in developing countries is small family firms and the self-employed in the informal sector. Very few family firms make the transition to larger firms employing non-family labour. In this paper, we examine the reasons for the low presence of firms employing...
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