Khurana, Saloni; Mahajan, Kanika; Sen, Kunal - 2023
Using nationally representative data on employment and earnings, this paper documents a fall in wage inequality in … lowest quintile by 0.17%. This effect is smaller at upper wage quintiles and insignicant for the highest wage quintile …. Counterfactual wage estimations show that the increase in minimum wages explains 26% of the decline in wage inequality in India …