caste and religious identities in India, and how that has changed over time. I use data from seven different rounds of … National Sample Survey (NSS) to investigate the wage differences that accrue due to different caste and religious identities. I … find that Indian Muslim men earn slightly lower wages compared to their upper-caste Hindu counterparts, and this difference …

same time, India has one of the widest gender wage gaps in the world and women are less likely to be employed in the formal … manufacturing earned on average 40% less than male workers. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition shows that the total gender wage gap in …Standing at 24% in 2018, India's female labour force participation is only half of the global average (48%). At the …

As trade liberalization in India has unleashed a new wave of competitive forces in the economy since 1991, firms have … increasing competitive forces from India's trade liberalization affected the wages of male and female workers differently … impact of international trade on the gender wage gap could be positive or negative depending on the initial size of Becker …

This paper argues that the assumption of a homogeneous workforce, which is implicitly invoked in the decomposition … finds that the main factor contributing to poverty reduction has been individuals' changes in labor earnings, and the role …