Caste, Female Labor Supply and the Gender Wage Gap in India: Boserup Revisited
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چکیده
A look at the spatial variation in male and female agricultural wages in India throws up a seeming paradox: gender differentials are the largest in the southern regions of India that are otherwise favourable to women. Boserup (1970) hypothesized that this is due to the greater labor force participation of women in these regions. This is not obvious as greater female labor supply could depress male wages as well. This paper undertakes a formal test of the Boserup proposition. Econometrically, the main challenge is to relate wages to exogenous variation in labor supply. The results show that differences in female labor supply are able to explain 55% of difference in gender wage differential between northern and southern states of India.
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