Earnings and Caste: An Evaluation of Caste Wage Differentials in the Nepalese Labour Market.

This paper examines the sources of wage differentials among castes in Nepal, a country which had, until 1963, an age-old caste-based social division of labour. We use an extended Oaxaca decomposition model with occupation and firm size augmenting the conventionally used measures of human capital end...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Development Studies Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 396 - 422
Autores principales:	Mainali, Ram, Jafarey, Saqib, Montes-Rojas, Gabriel
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Ltd 2017
Materias:	Nepal Wages Caste Labor market Wage differentials Government policy Occupations Business enterprises
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