Gender Discrimination and the Biased Indian Labour Market: Evidence from the National Sample Survey
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Keywords
gender inequality; Theil index; Threefold Oaxaca decomposition; wage discrimination. NSS (EUS) 68th round; NCO 2004; returns to education.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
- J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2021-11-22 (Development)
- NEP-GEN-2021-11-22 (Gender)
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