Costs and Benefits of Seasonal Migration : Evidence from India
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Keywords
Internal Migration ; Workfare Programs ; India ; Urban ; Rural;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2018-04-09 (Development)
- NEP-LMA-2018-04-09 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-MIG-2018-04-09 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-URE-2018-04-09 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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