Labor Market Effects of Inconsistent Policy Interventions: Evidence from India’s Employment Guarantees
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Keywords
Employment guarantee; wage rigidity; uncertainty; welfare; NREGA; India;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LMA-2016-12-04 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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