Basu, Arnab - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 11 (2013) 1, pp. 1-34
The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed as a policy that … rural-urban migration. This paper models the impact of such employment guarantee schemes in the context of an agrarian … examine labor and output market responses to a productive rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) and determine the optimal …