| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28924 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28924 |
| The Psychosocial Value of Employment | |
| Reshmaan N. Hussam; Erin M. Kelley; Gregory V. Lane; Fatima T. Zahra | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-06-21 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In settings where an individual’s labor choices are constrained, the inability to work may generate psychosocial harm. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh. We engage 745 individuals in a field experiment with three arms: (1) a control arm, (2) a weekly cash arm, and (3) a gainful employment arm, in which work is offered and individuals are paid weekly the approximate equivalent of that in the cash arm. We find that employment confers significant psychosocial benefits beyond the impacts of cash alone, with effects concentrated among males. The cash arm does not improve psychosocial wellbeing, despite the provision of cash at a weekly amount that is more than twice the amount held by recipients in savings at baseline. Consistent with these findings, we find that 66% of those in our work treatment are willing to forego cash payments to instead work for free. Our results have implications for social protection policies for the unemployed in low income countries and refugee populations globally. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Behavioral Economics ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28924 |
| 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/586598 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Reshmaan N. Hussam,Erin M. Kelley,Gregory V. Lane,et al. The Psychosocial Value of Employment. 2021. |
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