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Public construction contract 489 Öffentlicher Bauauftrag 489 Deutschland 78 Germany 74 USA 62 United States 60 Arbeitsmarktpolitik 55 Labour market policy 55 Public-private partnership 55 Öffentlich-private Partnerschaft 55 Öffentlicher Auftrag 54 Intermediate labour market 50 Zweiter Arbeitsmarkt 50 Bauwirtschaft 44 Construction industry 43 Public contract 41 Theorie 34 Theory 34 India 30 Indien 30 Armutsbekämpfung 26 Italien 26 Italy 26 Poverty reduction 26 Public procurement law 26 Vergaberecht 26 Impact assessment 23 Wirkungsanalyse 23 Infrastrukturinvestition 22 Infrastructure investment 20 Ausschreibung 19 Großbritannien 19 United Kingdom 19 Competitive tendering 18 Entwicklungsländer 18 Arbeitslosigkeit 17 Developing countries 17 Infrastruktur 17 Public Private Partnership 17 Collective agreement 16
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Book / Working Paper 291 Article 191 Journal 18
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Article in journal 154 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 154 Graue Literatur 129 Non-commercial literature 129 Arbeitspapier 60 Working Paper 60 Amtsdruckschrift 36 Aufsatz im Buch 36 Book section 36 Government document 36 Hochschulschrift 28 Collection of articles of several authors 19 Sammelwerk 19 Thesis 18 Konferenzschrift 11 No longer published / No longer aquired 10 Statistik 10 Conference proceedings 9 Statistics 9 Forschungsbericht 8 Advisory report 7 Case study 7 Fallstudie 7 Gutachten 7 Aufsatzsammlung 4 Bibliografie enthalten 4 Bibliography included 4 Mehrbändiges Werk 3 Multi-volume publication 3 Amtliche Publikation 2 Conference paper 2 Glossar enthalten 2 Glossary included 2 Konferenzbeitrag 2 Abstract 1 Accompanied by computer file 1 Bibliografie 1 Collection of articles written by one author 1 Elektronischer Datenträger als Beilage 1 Festschrift 1
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English 353 German 97 Italian 23 French 13 Spanish 6 Swedish 3 Portuguese 2 Turkish 2 Undetermined 2 Polish 1
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Rizzo, Ilde 8 Giorgiantonio, Cristina 5 Jacob, Dieter 5 Liu, Yanyan 5 Ravallion, Martin 5 Alfen, Hans Wilhelm 4 Barrett, Christopher B. 4 Bhattacharya, Vivek 4 Braun, Joachim von 4 Chau, Nancy H. 4 Das, Upasak 4 Datt, Gaurav 4 Decarolis, Francesco 4 Gaiha, Raghav 4 Guccio, Calogero 4 Gugler, Klaus 4 Pignataro, Giacomo 4 Roberts, James W. 4 Subbarao, Kalanidhi 4 Sweeting, Andrew 4 Weichselbaumer, Michael 4 Zulehner, Christine 4 Bhattacharyya, Sambit 3 Brees, Samuel Charles 3 Duncan, Kevin C. 3 Fiorito, Luca 3 Galletta, Sergio 3 Jametti, Mario 3 Kanbur, Ravi 3 Philips, Peter R. 3 Qin, Yu 3 Redonda, Agustin 3 Roth, Steffen J. 3 Steinmetz, Freia 3 Teklu, Tesfaye 3 Terhal, Piet 3 Theunynck, Serge 3 Vodopivec, Milan 3 Zimmerman, Seth D. 3 Adato, Michelle 2
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World Bank 6 Bauhaus-Universität Weimar / Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen 3 Bauhaus-Universität Weimar / Professur Betriebswirtschaftslehre im Bauwesen 3 Südafrika / Department of Public Works 3 Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung 2 Deutschland 2 Deutschland / Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie 2 Deutschland / Statistisches Bundesamt 2 Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie 2 Internationale Arbeitsorganisation / Building, Civil Engineering and Public Works Committee 2 Istituto Centrale di Statistica <Rom> 2 National Bureau of Economic Research 2 Société Immobilière du Québec 2 UNDP 2 USA / Economic Development Administration 2 ÖPP Deutschland AG (Partnerschaften Deutschland) <Berlin> 2 Österreich / Rechnungshof 2 Administration of Public Works 1 American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations 1 Australien / Auditor General 1 Australien / Parliament 1 Australien / Parliament / Senate / Standing Committee on Public Works 1 Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato 1 Barnard College / Economics Department 1 Berlin / Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umweltschutz 1 Braunschweiger PPP-Seminar <2005, Braunschweig> 1 Bund der Steuerzahler / Deutsches Steuerzahlerinstitut 1 Bundeskammer der Gewerblichen Wirtschaft 1 Centro Italiano di Ricerche e d'Informazione sull'Economia Pubblica, Sociale e Cooperativa 1 Ceylon / Public Works Department 1 Deutschland / Bundesrechnungshof 1 Deutschland / Bundeswehr / Universität München / Lehrstuhl für Finanzwissenschaft 1 Economic Development 1 Education For All Fast Track Initiative 1 Europaeische Gemeinschaften, Komm. 1 Frankreich / Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer / Direction du Plan 1 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung / Abteilung Wirtschaftspolitik 1 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung / Botswana Office 1 George Philip & Son <London> 1 Great Britain / Parliament / House of Commons / Select Committee on Railway Labourers 1
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Journal of labor research 8 Government-mandated project labor agreements in the construction industry 6 Public private partnership : das Handbuch ; mit einem Register aller relevanten PPP-Projekte 5 Schriftenreihe der Professur Betriebswirtschaftslehre im Bauwesen 5 World development : the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development 5 Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs 4 Africa Region Findings &amp 4 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 4 IZA Discussion Paper 4 Innovationen im Baubetrieb : Wirtschaft - Technik - Recht ; Festschrift für Universitätsprofessor Dr.-Ing. Udo Blecken zum 70. Geburtstag 4 Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Bauwirtschaft und Baubetrieb 4 World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4 BBSR-Online-Publikation 3 Economia pubblica : the Italian journal of public economics and law 3 Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic Association International 3 International journal of project management : the journal of The International Project Management Association 3 International labour review 3 International review of applied economics 3 Journal of development economics 3 Labor studies journal : official journal of United Association für Labor Education 3 Questioni di economia e finanza 3 World Bank E-Library Archive 3 Africa human development series 2 Annuario statistico italiano / Repubblica Italiana 2 Applied economics 2 Arbeitspapiere zur immobilienwirtschaftlichen Forschung und Praxis 2 Bauwirtschaft und Baubetrieb / Mitteilungen 2 Bericht des Rechnungshofes / Reihe Bund 2 Development Southern Africa : quarterly journal 2 Die wirtschaftliche Seite des Bauens : Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Rainer Wanninger 2 Discussion paper / Institute of Social and Economic Research 2 Discussion paper / International Transport Forum 2 Discussion paper series / IZA 2 Discussion paper series / Philippine Institute for Development Studies 2 European journal of law and economics 2 Europäische Hochschulschriften / 5 2 Forum Hochschule 2 Freiberg working papers 2 Freiberger Arbeitspapiere 2 Government union review : a quarterly journal on public sector labor relations 2
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Unorthodoxy in Hungary : an illiberal success story?
Csaba, László - In: Post-communist economies 34 (2022) 1, pp. 1-14
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A multicriteria model to evaluate tenders for green procurement of public works
Tavares, Luis V.; Ferreira, José Antunes; Ricardo, … - In: European journal of public procurement markets : EJPPM 4 (2022), pp. 23-50
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Characteristics of public workers
Szabó, Lajos Tamás - 2022
In our study, we set out to present the characteristics of public workers between 2011 and 2019 based on the comprehensive and anonymous administrative database of the Hungarian State Treasury (MÁK). During the years under review, altogether 676 thousand people were involved in the programme....
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The Implementation of Public Works in Italy : Institutional Features and Regional Characteristics
Baltrunaite, Audinga; Orlando, Tommaso; Rovigatti, Gabriele - 2022
Project duration is an important metric in the assessment of public works procurement and consists of the time taken to complete the three major sub-phases (design, awarding and execution). The overall duration may be influenced by various factors such as project characteristics, local market...
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Public works programmes and cooperation for the common good : evidence from Malawi
Beierl, Stefan; Dodlova, Marina - In: The European journal of development research 34 (2022) 3, pp. 1264-1284
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Social protection and foundational cognitive skills during adolescence : evidence from a large public works programme
Freund, Richard; Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; … - 2022
Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced Public Works Programmes (PWPs) to fight poverty. PWPs provide temporary cash-for-work opportunities to boost poor households' incomes and to provide better infrastructure to local communities. While PWPs do not target children directly, the...
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Public work and private violence
Kjelsrud, Anders; Sjurgard, Kristin Vikan - In: The journal of development studies 58 (2022) 9, pp. 1791-1806
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Social protection and foundational cognitive skills during adolescence : evidence from a large public works programme
Freund, Richard; Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; … - 2022
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Anti-Claim Management: Diskussion und Bewertung der Prozessinnovation im Kontext der Angebotsprüfung
Karl, Thomas; Schmalfuß, Andreas; Meier, Thomas - 2021
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Opportunities for Youth and Women's Participation in Ghana's Labour-intensive Public Works Program
Dadzie, Christabel E. - 2021
Ghana's public works program, Labour-Intensive Public Works (LIPW), was initiated in 2010 with the goal of providing short-term employment opportunities to the poorest and building community assets. Public works programs have the potential to promote social inclusion by benefiting vulnerable...
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Prevailing Wage Laws and Construction Labor Markets
Kessler, Daniel P.; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021
Prevailing wage laws, which require that construction workers employed by private contractors on public projects be paid at least the wages and benefits that are "prevailing" for similar work in or near the locality in which the project is located, have been the focus of an extensive policy...
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Development of models of technology transfer for public works
Kharytonov, Yuriy; Slobodian, Serhii; Podaienko, Marina - In: Baltic Journal of Economic Studies 7 (2021) 4, pp. 214-225
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Ethiopia’s Flagship Public Works Program Increases Tree Cover in Rural Areas and Sloped Terrains
Hirvonen, Kalle; Machado, Elia; Simons, Andrew; Taraz, Vis - 2021
More than one billion people worldwide receive cash or in-kind transfers from social assistance programs. In low-income countries, these transfers are often conditioned on participation in labor-intensive public works to rehabilitate local infrastructure or natural resources. Despite their...
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Supply chain analysis in public works : the role of work climate, supervision and organizational learning
Soetjipto, Noer; Kurniawan, Gogi; Sulastri, Sulastri; … - In: Journal of Asian finance, economics and business : JAFEB 7 (2020) 12, pp. 1065-1071
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South Australia's Employment Relief Program for assisted immigrants : promises and reality, 1838-1843
Harris, Edwyna; La Croix, Sumner J. - 2020
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Cash transfers, public works and child activities : mixed methods evidence from the United Republic of Tanzania
Hoop, Jacobus de; Gichane, Margaret W.; Groppo, Valeria; … - 2020
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Debarment and Collusion in Procurement Auctions
Cerrone, Claudia - 2020
This article presents the first experiment exploring the impact of debarments - the exclusion of colluding bidders - on collusion in procurement auctions. We find that debarments and their most common alternative, fines, reduce collusion and bids relative to a market with no sanction. The...
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South Australia's employment relief program for assisted immigrants : promises and reality, 1838-1843
Harris, Edwyna; La Croix, Sumner J. - 2020
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On the gains from tradable benefits-in-kind : evidence for workfare in India
Ravallion, Martin - In: Economica 89 (2022) 355, pp. 770-787
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Should prevailing wages prevail? : re-examining the effect of prevailing wage laws on affordable housing construction costs
Hinkel, Matthew; Belman, Dale L. - In: British journal of industrial relations : BJIR ; an … 60 (2022) 4, pp. 761-783
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Land inequality and workfare policies
Li, Yanan; Sunder, Naveen - In: The journal of development studies 58 (2022) 5, pp. 891-914
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Public procurement : price-taker or market-shaper?
Hamilton, Sandra G. - In: Critical perspectives on international business 18 (2022) 4, pp. 574-615
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Labor-intensive public works programs in sub-Saharan Africa : experiences and implications for employment policies
Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Braun, Joachim von - 2019
Public works programs (PWPs) in sub-Saharan African countries have re-emerged as an important policy to stimulate employment generation in addition to their protective role such as consumption smoothening. The paper reviews evidence on the extent to which empirical research can substantiate the...
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Tempi di realizzazione delle opere pubbliche e loro determinanti
Carlucci, Carla; Giorgiantonio, Cristina; Orlando, Tommaso - 2019
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Favouritism and Inefficiency in Procurement : Evidence from Public Works in Italy
Decarolis, Francesco - 2019
This paper shows how favoritism in public procurement can emerge despite the use of rigid procedures for awarding contracts and of transparent criteria for allowing firms to bid.The paper analyzes data on the awarding of public works in Italy to illustrate how differences in fine regulation...
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Effects of government spending on employment : evidence from winners and runners-up in procurement auctions
Gugler, Klaus; Weichselbaumer, Michael; Zulehner, Christine - 2018
To estimate demand for labor, we use a combination of detailed employment data and the outcomes of procurement auctions, and compare the employment of the winner of an auction with the employment of the second ranked firm (i.e. the runner-up firm). Assuming similar ex-ante winning probabilities...
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Public procurement and reputation : an agent-based model
Fiorino, Nadia; Galli, Emma; Rizzo, Ilde; Valente, Marco - 2018
Based on the literature on public procurement regulation, we use an Agent-Based Model to assess the performance of different selection procedures. Specifically, we aim at investigating whether and how the inclusion of reputation of firms in the public procurement selection process affects the...
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Impact of Labour Intensive Public Works on Youth Employment and Seasonal Migration : Evidence from Ghana
Namara, Suleiman - 2018
The study uses a sample of 3,876 youths to estimate the impact of Ghana's Labour Intensive Public Works (LIPW) program on youth employment and seasonal migration using the ‘doubly-robust' estimator that models both the treatment assignment and the outcome variable within the same framework....
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Political Activism as a Determinant of Clientelistic Transfers : Evidence from an Indian Public Works Program
Chau, Nancy H. - 2018
Are political activists preferentially targeted by politicians engaging in clientelistic transfers to bolster political support? We provide the first model to highlight two possible rationales for such transfers: to mobilize support from the activists themselves, or to mobilize support from...
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Do Rewards Work? : Evidence from the Randomization of Public Works
Carrillo, Paul E. - 2018
This paper evaluates the effect of positive inducements on tax behavior by exploiting a natural experiment in which a municipality of Argentina randomly selected 400 individuals among more than 72,000 taxpayers who had complied with payment of their property tax. These individuals were publicly...
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Spatially Heterogeneous Effects of a Public Works Program
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2018
Most research on labor market effects of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme focuses on outcomes at the district level. This paper shows that such a focus masks substantial spatial heterogeneity: treated villages located near untreated areas see smaller increases in...
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Understanding of Job Analysis of Middle Management in Ministry of Public Works and Transport, Laos, PDR
Rattanavong, Souvanny - 2018
Job analysis sits at the heart of all human resource practices, making it a critically important management activity in every organization. However, with increasing competition, shorter product life-cycles, rapid technological innovations, and the changing nature of organizational structures,...
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Public Works Programs and Crime : Evidence for El Salvador
Acosta, Pablo Ariel - 2018
Most evaluations of public works programs in developing countries study their effects on poverty reduction and other labor market outcomes (job creation, earnings, and participation). However, very few look at other collateral effects, such as the incidence of violence. Between 2009 and 2014, El...
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Do rewards work? : evidence from the randomization of public works
Carrillo, Paul E.; Castro, Edgar; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2017
This paper evaluates the effect of positive inducements on tax behavior by exploiting a natural experiment in which a municipality of Argentina randomly selected 400 individuals among more than 72,000 taxpayers who had complied with payment of their property tax. These individuals were publicly...
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The "discouraged worker effect" in public works programs : evidence from the MGNREGA in India
Narayanan, S.; Das, Upasak; Liu, Yanyan; Barrett, … - 2017
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Decentralization and public procurement performance : new evidence from Italy
Chiappinelli, Olga - 2017
We exploit a new dataset based on EU procurement award notices to investigate the relationship between the degree of centralization of public procurement and its performance. We focus on the case of Italy, where all levels of government, along with a number of other public institutions, are...
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Effects of government spending on employment : evidence from winners and runners-up in procurement auctions
Gugler, Klaus; Weichselbaumer, Michael; Zulehner, Christine - 2017
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Can Public Works Programs Reduce Youth Crime? Evidence from Papua New Guinea's Urban Youth Employment Project
Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2017
Crime rates in Papua New Guinea's capital city of Port Moresby are among the highest in the world. Few youth work, and good jobs are scarce. In 2013, the National Capital District Commission partnered with the World Bank to implement the Urban Youth Employment Project. The project offers...
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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) as Social Safety Net : Analysis of Public Works in Odisha, India
Das, Tushar Kanti - 2017
Social safety nets are transfers targeted to the poor or vulnerable. They facilitate access to health and education services to build human capital. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (earlier known as Millennium Development Goals), national and state governments as well as...
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Can You Work it? Evidence on the Productive Potential of Public Works from a Youth Employment Program in Sierra Leone
Rosas, Nina - 2017
This paper examines the short-term impacts of a labor-intensive public works program on household welfare and economic prospects. Using a community-level randomized control trial approach, the paper finds that the public works program targeted at youth in Sierra Leone successfully provided...
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Is Competition Able to Counteract the Inefficiency of Corruption? The Case of Italian Public Works
Finocchiaro Castro, Massimo - 2017
The aim of this paper is to provide an empirical test of the role of competition in procurement in reducing the effects of corruption. For this purpose, the paper examines whether competition is able to constrain the waste effects of corruption on the efficiency of execution of public works,...
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Creativity and Innovation Management at Ministry of Public Works and Transports
Kimanivong, Thongchanh - 2017
Ministry of Public Works and Transports is the public organization with the mission to implement new process, products, services and methods of delivery resulting in significant improvements in the efficiency, effectiveness or quality of outcomes. This research paper aimed at firstly...
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Politics, Public Works and Poverty : Evidence from the Bangladesh Employment Generation Programme for the Poorest
Sharif, Iffath - 2017
Public works programs can be effective safety nets if they help allocate resources toward poor households. By setting wages lower than market rates public works programs identify poor households reasonably well. When these programs are oversubscribed and lack beneficiary selection rules however,...
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The Joint Effects of a Health Insurance and a Public Works Scheme in Rural Ethiopia
Shigute, Zemzem - 2017
Rural households in Ethiopia are exposed to a variety of covariate and idiosyncratic risks. In 2005, the Ethiopian government introduced the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and in 2011 launched the Community Based Health Insurance Scheme (CBHI). This paper analyses the interaction between...
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The ‘Discouraged Worker Effect’ in Public Works Programs : Evidence from the MGNREGA in India
Narayanan, Sudha - 2017
This study investigates the consequences of poor implementation in public workfare programs, focusing on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in India. Using nationally representative data, we test empirically for a discouraged worker effect arising from either of...
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Can Public Works Programs Reduce Youth Crime? Evidence from Papua New Guinea's Urban Youth Employment Project
Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2017
Crime rates in Papua New Guinea's capital city of Port Moresby are among the highest in the world. Few youth work, and good jobs are scarce. In 2013, the National Capital District Commission partnered with the World Bank to implement the Urban Youth Employment Project. The project offers...
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Politics, Public Works and Poverty : Evidence from the Bangladesh Employment Generation Programme for the Poorest
Sharif, Iffath - 2017
Public works programs can be effective safety nets if they help allocate resources toward poor households. By setting wages lower than market rates public works programs identify poor households reasonably well. When these programs are oversubscribed and lack beneficiary selection rules however,...
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Employment behavior and the economic crisis : evidence from winners and runners-up in procurement auctions
Gugler, Klaus; Weichselbaumer, Michael; Zulehner, Christine - In: Journal of public economics 182 (2020), pp. 1-21
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Unintended consequences of Nevada's ninety-percent prevailing wage rule
Duncan, Kevin C.; Waddoups, C. Jeffrey - In: Labor studies journal 45 (2020) 2, pp. 166-185
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John R. Commons and government as employer of last resort : three paths to a progressive right to work
Whalen, Charles Joseph - In: Journal of economic issues 54 (2020) 2, pp. 428-435
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