Kwacha Gonna Do? Examining Labor Supply Decisions in Malawi 

Center for Global Development presents a brownbag seminar on
Kwacha Gonna Do? Examining labor supply decisions in Malawi 

Featuring
Jessica Goldberg
PhD Candidate, University of Michigan

Friday, February 11, 2011
12:00pm--1:00pm
**Please bring your lunch--beverages provided!**

at
Center for Global Development
1800 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC
*Please bring photo identification*

Event Summary: Developing countries often seek to create day-labor jobs to reduce poverty and help develop infrastructure. This strategy assumes that the labor supply is flexible. Jessica Goldberg tests that assumption through a unique field experiment in Malawi to quantify how much the labor supply responds to changes in wages. Her results show that in poor rural markets, labor supply is highly inflexible and limits the success this type of government employment scheme.

Download the paper here.