This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...

India has witnessed the exponential growth rate of inequality of income and wealth creation hugely since the decade of the 1980s. In the initial years of the decade 1980, top 1% of employed usually earned around 6 % to 7% of total income distribution. However the inequality in income standards...

1. The Labour Market in India -- 2. Labour Market Inequality -- 3. Discrimination and Jobs Reservation -- 4. Caste, Gender, and Occupational Outcomes -- 5. Job Contracts -- 6. Wage Inequality -- 7. The Way Forward

A growing body of research shows that COVID-19 both reflects and exacerbates existing inequalities. However, there are significant gaps in this research area with respect to 'horizontal' or group-based inequalities in Global South countries. Lack of group-disaggregated data often contributes. In...