competition allow local elites to capture local governments. This hypothesis is empirically examined using a longitudinal sample … of 80 West Bengal villages concerning targeting of credit, agricultural input kits, employment programs and fiscal grants … negligible adverse effects on targeting of private goods to the poor within villages, but with lower employment generation out of …

This paper studies the impact of employment subsidies in a simple macroeconomic model with imperfect competition and … unemployment due to wage rigidity. COmputed with a simple formula that is robust to the specification of imperfect competition and … wage rigidity, subsidies can make an economy reach the Walrasian equilibrium. Moreover, theintroduction of employment …

to strengthen competition in the non-tradable sector and make the labor market more efficient and inclusive, supported by …

The paper begins with an analysis of the effects on employment stability of competition for labour between firms. The …

This paper provides a systematic empirical investigation of the effect of product market liberalization on employment …