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Inequality, urbanization, and the Kuznets process: Evidence from India's Annual Periodic Labour Force Surveys

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  • S. Chandrasekhar
  • Karthikeya Naraparaju
  • Ajay Sharma

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We provide annual estimates of inequality in monthly per capita household earnings in India over the period 2017/18 to 2022/23 based on analysis of India's Periodic Labour Force Surveys. Over the six years, the estimate of inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient is in the range of 0.40 to 0.44 and, as measured by the Mean Log Deviation, between 0.28 and 0.34. We find that a 1 percentage point increase in the level of urbanization may increase the Mean Log Deviation by 0.5 to 0.7 per cent.

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  • S. Chandrasekhar & Karthikeya Naraparaju & Ajay Sharma, 2025. "Inequality, urbanization, and the Kuznets process: Evidence from India's Annual Periodic Labour Force Surveys," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2025-15, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2025-15
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