Does move to market have an impact on earnings gap across gender? Some evidence from India

Sumon Bhaumik and Manisha Chakrabarty ()

Applied Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 15, issue 8, 601-605

Abstract: We use Indian National Sample Survey employment-unemployment data for the urban sector for the years 1987 and 1999. Our results indicate that the gender wage gap had narrowed considerably between these two years, for all earnings deciles and for all education cohorts. The narrowing of the earnings gap can be attributed largely to a sharp increase in the returns to the labour market experience of women.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850600706651

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