The agricultural wage gap within rural villages

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Baysan, Ceren; Dar, Manzoor H.; Emerick, Kyle; Li, Zhimin; Sadoulet, Elisabeth
• 署名单位: University of Toronto; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; CGIAR; International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics (ICRISAT); Tufts University; Peking University; Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School (PKU Shenzhen); University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103270
• 发表日期: 2024
• 关键词: wage gap; agriculture; structural change; Dual economy; urbanization

摘要

We use unique data on daily labor -market outcomes for Indian casual workers to study labor reallocation between agricultural and non-agricultural activities within rural areas. Controlling for both individual timeinvariant attributes and time -varying shocks, we find that workers who switch sectors across years or even within a week can obtain 23% higher wages by taking non-agricultural jobs. We then estimate a discrete choice model of daily labor allocation that decomposes preferences for jobs into two types of disamenities: (i) those associated with job characteristics and (ii) those associated with location. We find that the first type of disamenity is 23% of wages for men and 38% for women, and the second type is 36% of wages for men and 31% for women.