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Cream-Skimmer or Underdog? Labor Type Selectivity, Pre-Program Wage, and Rural Labor Training Program Outcome
Chen, Yiu Por - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The mismatch between laborer's abilities and the target subject of the training program is one of the most primary concerns for a labor training program. The ability of different workers may significantly affect the outcomes of a labor training program. The objective of this paper is to look at...
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National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Poverty and Prices in Rural India
Gaiha, Raghav; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Pandey, Manoj K.; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009
poverty, and (ii) whether recent hikes in NREGS wages are inflationary. Our analysis confirms responsiveness of excess demand … to poverty. Also, apprehensions expressed about the inflationary potential of recent hikes in NREGS wages have been … confirmed. More importantly, higher NREGS wages are likely to undermine self-selection of the poor in it. So, in order to …
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Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa
Dinkelman, Taryn; Ranchhod, Vimal - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 1, pp. 27-45
South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law to identify increases in wages for domestic workers and no …
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Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Thi Tran, Ngoc-Han - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …
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Differential Rewards to, and Contributions of, Education in Urban China’s Segmented Labor Markets
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Dinh, Ngan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers,...
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Six Randomized Evaluations of Microcredit: Introduction and Further Steps
Banerjee, Abhijit; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7 (2015) 1, pp. 1-21
Causal evidence on microcredit impacts informs theory, practice, and debates about its effectiveness as a development tool. The six randomized evaluations in this volume use a variety of sampling, data collection, experimental design, and econometric strategies to identify causal effects of...
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Fighting Poverty One Experiment at a Time: <em>Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty</em>: Review Essay
Ravallion, Martin - In: Journal of Economic Literature 50 (2012) 1, pp. 103-14
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo offer a coherent vision for an economics of poverty and antipoverty policy. Their economics is grounded in an effort to understand the economic and psychological complexities in the lives of poor people, informed by social experiments and field observations....
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...
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Empowering Women for Sustainable Development
Warth, Lisa; Koparanova, Malinka - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2012
Sustainable development cannot be achieved without a more equitable distribution of resources today and tomorrow. This paper highlights that prevailing inequalities are deeply gendered. Understanding this and making policy decisions towards reducing these inequalities is a key condition in...
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Neuorientierung der Arbeitsmarktpolitik : Die Neuausrichtung der arbeitsmarktpolitischen Instrumente aus dem Jahr 2009 im Blickpunkt: Mehr Flexibilität und größere Handlungsspielrä...
Steinke, Joß; Koch, Susanne; Kupka, Peter; Osiander, … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"This paper deals with the strategic reorientation concerning the instruments of active labor market policy in Germany which came into force at January 1st 2009. The main objective of this reform was to streamline the portfolio of existing instruments and make it more transparent and clearly...
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