Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses … earnings distribution. We find clear differences in characteristics between the two types of businesses with the former faring … significantly worse. The mean decomposition reveals that as much as 55 per cent of the caste earnings gap could be attributed to the …

wage employment probability differential suggests that the possibility of gender discrimination against women in urban …

Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation … decomposition methodology that tracks changes in the discrimination component of the wage gap over time. It accounts for biases … shows that 2003 was a turning point, when black-white discrimination started to decline continuously thereafter. The …

Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the … linkages between persistent effects of discrimination in the labour market and the efficacy of redistributive fiscal policy in … behaviour of variables related to labour market status, and labour income inequality. The empirical investigation covers the …

We assess the relative importance of statistical residual-based measures of discrimination in determining indigenous … Australians' perceptions of discrimination in the labour market. We find that statistical measures are largely unrelated to … discrimination reports among males and negatively related to discrimination reports among females. Our results further indicate that …

discrimination. …

, resolve the index number problem of the standard decomposition, and examine earnings differentials across the unconditional … earnings distribution. We find compelling evidence of a sticky floor phenomenon in the informal labour market manifested … essentially among wage earners. Returns to experience mitigate the gender earnings gap at the mean, and 10th and 50th percentiles …