講座題目：The Agricultural Wage Gap within Rural Villages

講座時間：2023年11月9日（星期四）中午13:30-15:00

講座方式：線下，博學樓925

主講人：

黎志敏，北京大學匯豐商學院助理教授，北京大學博士生導師，美國加州大學伯克利分校博士，主要研究領(lǐng)域為國際經(jīng)濟學和發(fā)展經(jīng)濟學。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等國際學術(shù)期刊上發(fā)表。

講座簡介：

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.