Wage differential between caste groups: are younger and older cohorts different?
Wage differential between caste groups: are younger and older cohorts different?
Recent literature has provided evidence that a gender and caste-based wage discrimination can exert negative economic impact on a country's development process. Given the enormous contribution of young population to India's workforce, we examine whether there is any caste-based discrimination considering ‘demographic’ distinction. Using employment and unemployment National Sample Survey data from India for two rounds during the last two decades (1993 and 2010), we find rising wage gap between privileged and marginalized groups within younger and older cohorts across the distribution and over time. Furthermore, we decompose the wage gap using the counterfactual decomposition into endowment effect (explained by differences in characteristics) and a discrimination effect (attributable to unequal returns to covariates). We find that the discrimination effect against marginalized castes (in both cohorts) decreases, implying an increasing endowment effect across the distribution of the wage gap. The discrimination effect, however, is more pronounced among younger compared to older cohorts.
Caste discrimination, Young and old, India, Quantile regression
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Parhi, Mamata
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Arabsheibani, G. Reza
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Mishra, Tapas
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Gupta, Prashant
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Parhi, Mamata
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Arabsheibani, G. Reza
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Mishra, Tapas
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Parhi, Mamata, Arabsheibani, G. Reza, Mishra, Tapas and Gupta, Prashant
(2018)
Wage differential between caste groups: are younger and older cohorts different?
Economic Modelling, .
(doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2018.04.019).
Abstract
Recent literature has provided evidence that a gender and caste-based wage discrimination can exert negative economic impact on a country's development process. Given the enormous contribution of young population to India's workforce, we examine whether there is any caste-based discrimination considering ‘demographic’ distinction. Using employment and unemployment National Sample Survey data from India for two rounds during the last two decades (1993 and 2010), we find rising wage gap between privileged and marginalized groups within younger and older cohorts across the distribution and over time. Furthermore, we decompose the wage gap using the counterfactual decomposition into endowment effect (explained by differences in characteristics) and a discrimination effect (attributable to unequal returns to covariates). We find that the discrimination effect against marginalized castes (in both cohorts) decreases, implying an increasing endowment effect across the distribution of the wage gap. The discrimination effect, however, is more pronounced among younger compared to older cohorts.
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Accepted/In Press date: 30 April 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 6 July 2018
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Caste discrimination, Young and old, India, Quantile regression
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