Khurana, Saloni; Mahajan, Kanika; Sen, Kunal - 2023
Using nationally representative data on employment and earnings, this paper documents a fall in wage inequality in … quintile. Counterfactual wage estimations show that the increases in minimum wages explain 26 per cent of the decline in wage … inequality. These findings underscore the important role played by rising minimum wages in reducing wage disparities in India. …