Prioritizing Job Creation without Undermining Public Works Construction among Road Improvement Projects in Rural Nicaragua

We evaluate the impacts of a road rehabilitation workfare project in Nicaragua. Our results reveal that the substitution of labour-intensive manual paving of dirt roads for commercial paving technology did not undermine the primary goal of increasing access to a paved road, which grew by 16.4 percen...

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Main Authors:	Garz, Seth, Perova, Elizaveta
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2021
Subjects:	SOCIAL PROTECTION PUBLIC WORKS ROAD BUILDING ROADS PAVING LABOR-INTENSIVE WORK
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36012

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spelling	okr-10986-360122022-01-28T16:07:21Z Prioritizing Job Creation without Undermining Public Works Construction among Road Improvement Projects in Rural Nicaragua Garz, Seth Perova, Elizaveta SOCIAL PROTECTION PUBLIC WORKS ROAD BUILDING ROADS PAVING LABOR-INTENSIVE WORK We evaluate the impacts of a road rehabilitation workfare project in Nicaragua. Our results reveal that the substitution of labour-intensive manual paving of dirt roads for commercial paving technology did not undermine the primary goal of increasing access to a paved road, which grew by 16.4 percentage points. The project did not increase overall employment, but was associated with an increase in working as a labourer; though, we do not find specific substitution away from agriculture or self-employment as identified in other work. We also find impacts on education and health, extending similar findings from African and Asian regions. 2021-07-22T16:33:40Z 2021-07-22T16:33:40Z 2021-04-20 Journal Article Journal of Development Effectiveness 1943-9342 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36012 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article Latin America & Caribbean Nicaragua
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topic	SOCIAL PROTECTION PUBLIC WORKS ROAD BUILDING ROADS PAVING LABOR-INTENSIVE WORK
spellingShingle	SOCIAL PROTECTION PUBLIC WORKS ROAD BUILDING ROADS PAVING LABOR-INTENSIVE WORK Garz, Seth Perova, Elizaveta Prioritizing Job Creation without Undermining Public Works Construction among Road Improvement Projects in Rural Nicaragua
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description	We evaluate the impacts of a road rehabilitation workfare project in Nicaragua. Our results reveal that the substitution of labour-intensive manual paving of dirt roads for commercial paving technology did not undermine the primary goal of increasing access to a paved road, which grew by 16.4 percentage points. The project did not increase overall employment, but was associated with an increase in working as a labourer; though, we do not find specific substitution away from agriculture or self-employment as identified in other work. We also find impacts on education and health, extending similar findings from African and Asian regions.
format	Journal Article
author	Garz, Seth Perova, Elizaveta
author_facet	Garz, Seth Perova, Elizaveta
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title	Prioritizing Job Creation without Undermining Public Works Construction among Road Improvement Projects in Rural Nicaragua
title_short	Prioritizing Job Creation without Undermining Public Works Construction among Road Improvement Projects in Rural Nicaragua
title_full	Prioritizing Job Creation without Undermining Public Works Construction among Road Improvement Projects in Rural Nicaragua
title_fullStr	Prioritizing Job Creation without Undermining Public Works Construction among Road Improvement Projects in Rural Nicaragua
title_full_unstemmed	Prioritizing Job Creation without Undermining Public Works Construction among Road Improvement Projects in Rural Nicaragua
title_sort	prioritizing job creation without undermining public works construction among road improvement projects in rural nicaragua
publisher	Taylor and Francis
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Prioritizing Job Creation without Undermining Public Works Construction among Road Improvement Projects in Rural Nicaragua

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