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Short-term migration rural workfare programs and urban labor markets - evidence from India
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Imbert, Clément and Papp, John (2016) Short-term migration rural workfare programs and urban labor markets - evidence from India. Working Paper. Coventry: Department of Economics, University of Warwick. Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (WERPS) (1116). (Unpublished)
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Abstract
This paper provides some of the first evidence that rural development policies can have fundamental effects on the reallocation of labor between rural and urban areas. It studies the spillover effects of the world's largest rural workfare program, India's rural employment guarantee. We find that the workfare program has substantial consequences: it reduces short-term (or seasonal) migration to urban areas by 9% and increases wages for manual, short-term work in urban areas by 6%. The implied elasticity of unskilled wages with respect to short-term migration is high (-0.7).
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Rural-urban migration -- India, Migration, Internal , Welfare recipients -- Employment | ||||
Series Name: | Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (WERPS) | ||||
Publisher: | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | ||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||
ISSN: | 0083-7350 | ||||
Official Date: | March 2016 | ||||
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Number: | 1116 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 50 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
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