Labor Market Effects of Social Programs: Evidence from India's Employment Guarantee

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Imbert, Clement; Papp, John
• 署名单位: University of Oxford
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20130401
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 233-263
• 关键词: south-africa; PRODUCTIVITY; CORRUPTION; responses; wages

摘要

We estimate the effect of a large rural workfare program in India on private employment and wages by comparing trends in districts that received the program earlier relative to those that received it later. Our results suggest that public sector hiring crowded out private sector work and increased private sector wages. We compute the implied welfare gains of the program by consumption quintile. Our calculations show that the welfare gains to the poor from the equilibrium increase in private sector wages are large in absolute terms and large relative to the gains received solely by program participants.