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 …

This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the … entire wage distribution using the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition approach. Real wages increased throughout the wage … increasing effects of tertiary education suggests that wage inequality in urban India may increase further in the near future as …

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 … supply shift was weak. -- India ; wage premium ; tertiary (college) ; secondary (high school) …

We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the …. -- quantile regression ; public-private wage differential ; India …

This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the … entire wage distribution using the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition approach. Real wages increased throughout the wage … increasing effects of tertiary education suggests that wage inequality in urban India may increase further in the near future as …

We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the …

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 …