We analyze the changes in earnings of paid workers (wage earners) in rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12. Real earnings … inequality increasing effect, chiefly attributable to increased education levels, inequality declined because workers at lower …

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 …, during the 1987-2005 period. Our results indicate that education differences between Hindu and Muslim wage earners …

had less opportunity to gain labor market favored characteristics such as a higher level of education, and even earn lower …

are negligible. Second, among composition effects, education has an inequality-reducing impact, while the increase in … clear cut policy implication is that policies enhancing education and economic performance contribute to reduce happiness … inequality and the potential social tensions arising from it. -- happiness inequality ; income inequality ; education …

both linear and non-linear estimation methods. …