| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23838 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23838 |
| General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India | |
| Karthik Muralidharan; Paul Niehaus; Sandip Sukhtankar | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-09-18 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Public employment programs may affect poverty both directly through the income they provide and indirectly through general-equilibrium effects. We estimate both effects, exploiting a reform that improved the implementation of India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) and whose rollout was randomized at a large (sub-district) scale. The reform raised beneficiary households’ earnings by 14%, and reduced poverty by 26%. Importantly, 86%of income gains came from non-program earnings, driven by higher private-sector (real) wages and employment. This pattern appears to reflect imperfectly competitive labor markets more than productivity gains: worker’s reservation wages increased, land returns fell, and employment gains were higher in villages with more concentrated landholdings. Non-agricultural enterprise counts and employment grew rapidly despite higher wages, consistent with a role for local demand in structural transformation. These results suggest that public employment programs can effectively reduce poverty in developing countries, and may also improve economic efficiency. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; General Equilibrium ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation ; Labor Market Structures ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23838 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581511 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Karthik Muralidharan,Paul Niehaus,Sandip Sukhtankar. General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India. 2017. |
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