Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries

By S. Jayachandran. Journal of Political Economy, 2006

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Labor Market Effects of Social Programs: Evidence from India's Employment Guarantee (2015, background): “(13)In particular, wages may be more pro-cyclical in early phase districts, which are poorer (Jayachandran, 2006).”
Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India (2010, unknown): “Jayachandran (2006) shows that drought has general equilibrium effects by reducing local wages for landless households.”
Agricultural productivity and the sectoral reallocation of labor in rural India (2018, background): “The empirical literature from India has indeed found that agricultural wages are generally higher during good rainfall years (Jayachandran, 2006; Kaur, 2015).”
Food Prices, Wages, and Welfare in Rural India (2013, unknown): “Given the relative ease of moving produce across district (as opposed to state) lines, state-level wholesale prices seem the appropriate measure of farmer production incentives.(20) I base the crop value shares, the sd,j in equation (6), on production data from the 2003-04 crop-year, which has the b”
Labor Markets and Poverty in Village Economies (2015, background): “16 their labor from village labor markets for these activities, prices need to rise to clear the market (Rosenzweig 1978; Rosenzweig 1988; Rose 2001; Jayachandran 2006; Goldberg 2010; Kaur 2014).22 The removal of ultra-poor labor from these activities and the consequent rise in wages therefore may…”
Financial Inclusion - Issues for Central Banks (2015, background): “Financially excluded farmers can trade livestock or other incomegenerating assets (see eg Rosenzweig and Wolpin (1993)) or they can adjust how much they work in response to shocks (see eg Jayachandran (2006)).”
Labor regulations and contract labor use: Evidence from Indian firms (2015, methodology): “Jayachandran (2006), Kaur (2012) and Adhvaryu, Chari, and Sharma (2013) have shown that a good rainfall is associated with higher agricultural yields.”
The price effects of cash versus in-kind transfers (2011, unknown): “When the supply curve is positively sloped, shifts in the demand for a good will affect 6The paper is also related to a broader literature on the determinants of prices in isolated markets in developing countries (Jayachandran, 2006; Donaldson, 2010; Atkin and Donaldson, 2012).”