has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this … lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the average (log) earnings of Hindu and Muslim wage earners in India … implications. -- Earnings gap ; education ; decomposition ; religion …

gap is higher in importance for the OBC. -- Living standards ; caste ; reservation policy ; decomposition …Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory …

its decomposition, socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption grouped by gender were estimated. The concentration … smokers was 0.039 (men 0.033; women 0.038). The majority of the inequality could be explained by educational attainment, age …

India has the world's biggest and arguably most aggressive employment-based affirmative action policy for minorities … salaried job by 0.6-percentage points for male Scheduled Caste members residing in the rural sector. The employment quota …

Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our … research. First, we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then explore how changes in …

This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality - the World Income Inequality Database … (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …

-10, we investigate the relationship between social identity, specifically caste identity in India, and perceptions of self …, and how institutional change can influence it. Our main finding is that caste identity in contemporary India does shape … party in power) mitigates this relationship. Finally, we examine the relationship between caste identity and actual earnings …

inter-religion earnings differences to a great extent. -- inequality ; caste ; religion ; India … state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …