Tag
labor_demand
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Economics (general)Cultivator Risk-Taking and Labor Demand VolatilityA 1 standard deviation increase in rainfall increases harvest labor demand by 3.3 days more for insured cultivators than uninsured cultivators (a 22% relative increase). A 10% increase in insured cultivators lowers drought wages by 33% at the 20th percentile of rainfall, but raises wages by 29% at the 80th percentile of rainfall.RCTDevelopmentCultivator Labor Demand SensitivityA 1 standard deviation increase in rainfall per day increases harvest labor demand by 3.3 days more for insured cultivators compared to uninsured cultivators in the same village (a 22% increase in relative demand; t-stat = 2.39).RCTLabour & employmentDemand-Side Active Labor Market PoliciesTreatment increased permanent contract vacancy postings with the public employment agency by 24% (+0.047 vacancies per firm, p < 0.01) and total vacancy postings by 14% (+0.071 vacancies, p < 0.05).RCTLabour & employmentEndogenous Vacancy Supply ResponseLog vacancy stocks in experiment counties increased significantly, peaking at an 18.2% increase (p < 0.01) in May/June 2006 (3-4 months post-assignment), resulting in a projected 2.4% net increase in overall economy-wide vacancy supply under full program rollout.Observational StudyEconomics (general)Ex-Ante Input Complementarity vs. Ex-Post Harvest Labor DecouplingInsurance significantly increases the rainfall elasticity of harvest labor demand ($\beta = 0.654, t = 2.39$), but has no statistically significant effect on planting-stage labor demand ($\beta = 0.459, t = 1.41$ or $\beta = 0.191, t = 0.48$ in placebo specifications).RCTLabour & employmentFirm-Directed Active Labor Market PolicyTreated firms exhibited a 24% increase in permanent contract vacancy postings (0.047 additional vacancies over a 0.199 control mean, p < 0.01) and a 10.2% increase in permanent contract hires of registered jobseekers (0.046 additional hires over 0.450 control mean, p < 0.05), generating 17.5 additional theoretical workdays per firm (p < 0.05).RCTLabour & employmentFirm-Side Substitution BoundFor every 1.398 formal apprentices placed per firm, host firms displaced 0.318 traditional apprentices, yielding an estimated firm substitution parameter $\psi = 0.227$ (p = 0.128) and bounding net position creation between 74.1% and 77.3% of formal placements.RCTDevelopmentStage-Specific Labor Demand DivergenceInsurance interaction with rainfall deviation increases harvest labor demand by 0.654 days per mm/day (t-stat = 2.39), while planting-stage labor demand shows no statistically significant response (0.459 days per mm/day, t-stat = 1.41; and 0.191 in full specification, t-stat = 0.48).RCT