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...
| Published in: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 396 - 422 |
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2017
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