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 …

Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply … participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills …

state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste 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 …

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 …

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

an under-explored dimension; the allocation of public sector teachers in India. Using a register database for 2006-12, we …

We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two … its population share and land share, we find support for these hypotheses in data from the India Human Development Survey …

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 …

Hierarchies in social identities have been found to be integrally related to divergences in economic status. In India … of affirmative action policies in India as well as targeting interventions with an aim to improving soft skills among the …