Option values, switches, and wages: An analysis of the employment guarantee scheme in India

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 248-263

  Scandizzo, Pasquale ^a   Gaiha, Raghav ^b   Imai, Katsushi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; LABOR MARKET; PANEL DATA; SKILLED LABOR; STOCHASTICITY; WAGE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 65449149741     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: 14679361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2008.00484.x     Document Type: Article

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