Disadvantage and Discrimination in Self- Employment: Caste Gaps in Earnings in Indian Small Businesses

WIDER Working Paper 2015/067 Disadvantage and discrimination in self-employment: Caste gaps in earnings in Indian small businesses

Economic Exclusion and Poverty: Indian Experience of Remedies against Exclusion

Executive Summary This paper develops an understanding of caste-based economic exclusion and its consequences on poverty of excluded groups, and discusses Indian government strategy against exclusion/ discrimination and policy for empowerment. The caste system as an economic organization is based on the division of persons in social groups (castes) with fixed and unequal economic rights. Compul...

A Sectoral Investigation of Women’s Pay Disadvantage in 1990s Britain

Using a pooled cross-section from the Labour Force Survey this paper examines the relative wages paid to full-time employees in the public and private sectors across the whole of the earnings distribution. A special emphasis is placed upon gender issues and decomposition analysis is used to explain wage differences between men and women in the respective sectors. Wage discrimination by gender i...

Regional Integration in Asia and the Contribution of SMEs – a Review of the

Over the past decade the economies of East Asia and APEC more generally have been increasinglyopening up their markets, and in the process have achieved significant gains in exports and economicgrowth. In conjunction with this increased economic integration, there has been increased recognitionby regional governments of the potential for a substantial increase in the participation by smallbusin...

A Model of Comparative Advantage with Matching in the Urban Tanzanian Labour Market

In this paper I build an equilibrium search model of the urban Tanzanian labour market that explains the choice between wage and self-employment and the variation in earnings across and within these sectors. Self-employment is very common in urban Tanzania and survey data show both that there are large overlaps in the distribution of earnings in private wage employment and self-employment and t...