Short-Term Effects of India's Employment Guarantee Program on Labor Markets and Agricultural Productivity

This paper uses a large national household panel from 1999/2000 and 2007/08 to analyze the short-term effects of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on wages, labor supply, agricultural labor use, and productivity...

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Main Authors: Deininger, Klaus, Nagarajan, Hari K., Singh, Sudhir K.
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
JOB
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/05/26360847/short-term-effects-indias-employment-guarantee-program-labor-markets-agricultural-productivity
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24502