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 …

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. …

The 'missing women' dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …

An important constraint in studying intergenerational education mobility for India is the lack of data that contain … father-son matched data that is representative of the entire adult male population in India. Using this father-son matched … data, we study the extent of intergenerational mobility in educational attainment in India since 1940s and provide an …