The agricultural wage gap within rural villages

Ceren Baysan, Manzoor H. Dar, Kyle Emerick, Zhimin Li and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Journal of Development Economics, 2024, vol. 168, issue C

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Wage gap; Agriculture; Structural change; Dual economy; Urbanization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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Working Paper: The Agricultural Wage Gap Within Rural Villages (2022)
Working Paper: The agricultural wage gap within rural villages (2019)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103270

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