exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities … effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority groups. My main finding is that employment quota significantly in …

This article investigates the effects of a large-scale public sector employment quota policy for disadvantaged … minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the … 1980s and 1990s. We find that, first, the employment quota policy significantly affects the occupational structure of both …

states of India. We use five rounds of all-India employment data from the National Sample Survey quinquennial surveys from …The caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in …

state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant intercaste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …

presence of public goods. This article aims at showing that such a positive relationship does exist, at least in parts of India …

In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following …