Baysan, C and Dar, M H and Emerick, K and Li, Z and Sadoulet, E (2024) The agricultural wage gap within rural villages. Journal of Development Economics, 168. ISSN 0304-3878
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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 time-invariant 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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Research Program : Asia |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | agricultural wage gap, rural villages |
| Subjects: | Others > Agriculture Others > Rural Economy |
| Depositing User: | Mr Nagaraju T |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jun 2024 10:01 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2024 10:01 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/12725 |
| Official URL: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/... |
| Projects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Acknowledgement: | UNSPECIFIED |
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