Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - In: Oxford open economics 1 (2022), pp. 1-15
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 …