Discrimination and Jobs Reservation in India

Vani Borooah

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Abstract: This chapter Borooah focuses on the reservation of jobs in government and the public sector which is a corollary of the Indian government’s constitutionally mandated duty to favour persons from the “reserved” categories (the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, and the Other Backward Classes) at the expense of persons from the “non-reserved” or “general” categories, in public sector jobs. Given that India’s experiment with affirmative action has been emulated in other countries (Malaysia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka), the purpose of this chapter is to investigate — using unit record data from the latest available NSS round (68th ) and an earlier round (55th ) pertaining to a decade earlier, of Employment — the extent to which jobs reservation has benefited persons from the “reserved categories” by offering them a greater share of regular salaried and wage employment than they might have obtained in its absence.

Keywords: India; Public Sector; Jobs Reservation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J41 J45 J71 J78 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-07
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Published in Disparity and Discrimination in Labour Market Outcomes in India Palgrave Macmillan (2019): pp. 61-96

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