The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the … in India. The findings of this paper are that the increase in the wage premium has come mostly from demand shifts in …

This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the … increasing effects of tertiary education suggests that wage inequality in urban India may increase further in the near future as …

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …