Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Social Programs. Orley Ashenfelter , James Blum

1978 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-159
Author(s):  
Kenneth I. Wolpin
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Market Effects

Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Social Programs.

ILR Review ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 548
Author(s):  
Robert E. Hall ◽  
Orley Ashenfelter ◽  
James Blum
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Market Effects

scholarly journals Labor Market Effects of Social Programs: Evidence from India's Employment Guarantee

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clément Imbert ◽  
John Papp
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Welfare Gains ◽  
Market Effects ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Private Employment ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
Sector Work

We estimate the effect of a large rural workfare program in India on private employment and wages by comparing trends in districts that received the program earlier relative to those that received it later. Our results suggest that public sector hiring crowded out private sector work and increased private sector wages. We compute the implied welfare gains of the program by consumption quintile. Our calculations show that the welfare gains to the poor from the equilibrium increase in private sector wages are large in absolute terms and large relative to the gains received solely by program participants. (JEL I38, J31, J45, J68, O15)

Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Social Programs

1978 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 1032
Author(s):  
C. Russell Hill ◽  
Orley Ashenfelter ◽  
James Blum
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Market Effects

Labor Market Effects of Marijuana and Cocaine Use among Young Men

ILR Review ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles A. Register ◽  
Donald R. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
National Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Productivity Effect ◽  
Cocaine Use ◽  
Market Effects ◽  
Net Productivity ◽  
Using Data

Using data on marijuana and cocaine use from the 1984 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the authors examine the hypothesis that drug use reduces labor market productivity, as measured by wages. From an analysis that controls for the probability of employment and the endogeneity of drug use, they find that although long-term and on-the-job use of marijuana negatively affected wages, the net productivity effect for all marijuana users (both those who engaged in long-term or on-the-job use and those who did not) was positive. No statistically significant association was found between cocaine use and productivity.

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