This paper considers the welfare and distributional consequences of higher relative food prices in rural India through the lens of a specific-factors, general equilibrium, trade model applied at the district level. The evidence shows that nominal wages for manual labor both within and outside agriculture respond elastically to increases in producer prices; that is, wages rose faster in rural districts growing more of those crops with large price run-ups...
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2013/04/01
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政策研究报告
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WPS6412
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2013/04/01
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Food prices, wages, and welfare in rural India
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manual labor