讲座题目:The Agricultural Wage Gap within Rural Villages
讲座时间:2023年11月9日(星期四)中午13:30-15:00
讲座方式:线下,博学楼925
主讲人:
黎志敏,北京大学汇丰商学院助理教授,北京大学博士生导师,美国加州大学伯克利分校博士,主要研究领域为国际经济学和发展经济学。他的研究成果在 Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economic Development and Cultural Change等国际学术期刊上发表。
讲座简介:
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, those associated with location and those associated with job characteristics, such as the difficulty of the work. We find that while costs of working outside the village are significant even within rural areas, disutility related to job characteristics of non-agricultural work is nearly the same in magnitude.