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 …

on employment outcomes, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in which strict stay … that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the treated districts …, particularly among workers in informal self-employment. While the gap in employment between the treated and control districts had …

what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …

occupational mobility in India, using a nationally representative data-set the India Human Development Survey which contains … belonging to socially disadvantaged communities in India lagging behind in social progress. Multigenerational mobility for …

other social groups in rural India across multiple generations. Theoretically, we distinguish between upper caste and own …

Using nationally representative data on employment and earnings, this paper documents a fall in wage inequality in … India over the last two decades. It then examines the role played by increasing minimum wages for the lowest skilled workers … in India in contributing to the observed decline. Exploiting regional variation in changes in minimum wages over time in …

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 …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …