Is Self-Employment the Answer to Caste Discrimination? Decomposing the Earnings Gap in Indian Household NonFarm Business

Published By: CDE on eSS | Published Date: February, 01 , 2013

Using the India Human Development Survey data for 2004-05, two methodologies are employed to estimate the earnings structure of household nonfarm businesses owned by Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs) and non-SCSTs: OLS estimation of mean earn- ings, and quantile regressions. [CDE Working Paper No. 236].

Author(s): Ashwini Deshpande, Smriti Sharma | Posted on: Feb 17, 2014 | Views(812) | Download (210)


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