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

Ashwini Deshpande and Smriti Sharma

No wp-2015-067, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we 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. 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 per cent of the caste earnings gap could be attributed to the unexplained component.

Keywords: Caste; Equality and inequality; Households; Income distribution; Microeconomics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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