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

Ashwini Deshpande and Smriti Sharma

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Abstract: Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, The paper aims to estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses owned by historically marginalized social groups known as Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs), and non-SCSTs across the earnings distribution. The paper finds 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 per cent of the caste earnings gap could be attributed to the unexplained component.

Keywords: caste; discrimination; household business; earning gaps; quantile decomposition; India; Ethnic; racial discrimination; Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition framework; Quantile regression decomposition framework; income gaps; asset ownership; social capital; education; health; marriage and fertility. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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