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The agricultural wage gap within rural villages

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304387824000191
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103270
 
Title The agricultural wage gap within rural villages
 
Creator Baysan, C
Dar, M H
Emerick, K
Li, Z
Sadoulet, E
 
Subject Agriculture
Rural Economy
 
Description 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.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2024-02-17
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Identifier 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