state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …

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 … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …

Using manufacturing data for India, this paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on two types of labor … benefit workers either, as they do not increase the share of value added that goes to labor. Labor-intensive industries, such …

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … switch from entrepreneurship to workers, while education does not explain, in a statistically significant level, switching …

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …

factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India … institutional and legacy factors. We also find evidence to suggest that, in India, entry rates were positively associated with …

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 …