WIDER Working Paper 2015/067 Disadvantage and discrimination in self-employment: Caste gaps in earnings in Indian small businesses
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Disadvantage and Discrimination in Self- Employment: Caste Gaps in Earnings in Indian Small Businesses
Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses owned by Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs) and non-SCSTs across the earnings distribution. We find clear differences in characteristics between the two types of businesses with the former faring significantly worse. The mean decomposition reveals that as much as 55 percent of ...
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تاریخ انتشار 2015