Wage differential by disability status in an agrarian labour market in India

Type Working Paper - Applied Economics Letters
Title Wage differential by disability status in an agrarian labour market in India
Author(s)
Volume 16
Issue 14
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2009
Page numbers 1393-1398
URL http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504850802047011#.Vdj57vntmko
Abstract
This article is the first to estimate the magnitude and determinants of a wage differential by disability status in the context of an agrarian labour market through a wage decomposition method. In rural Uttar Pradesh, India, we find evidence of an unexplained wage gap in favour of nondisabled men of 8% after controlling for selection bias into employment and using different reference groups for wage decomposition.

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