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

Autores
Mainali, Ram; Jafarey, Saqib; Montes Rojas, Gabriel Victorio
Año de publicación
2017
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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 endowments. Our results indicate that caste wage differentials in Nepal are large and that human capital endowments and lack of access to better paying occupations and larger firms have a significant impact. Furthermore, we find mixed evidence that the government policy of affirmative action has narrowed down the caste wage differential.
Fil: Mainali, Ram. Ministry Of Finance; Nepal. City University of London; Reino Unido
Fil: Jafarey, Saqib. City University of London; Reino Unido
Fil: Montes Rojas, Gabriel Victorio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. City University of London; Reino Unido
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Nepal
Caste Discrimination
Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Earnings and Caste: An Evaluation of Caste Wage Differentials in the Nepalese Labour Market
title Earnings and Caste: An Evaluation of Caste Wage Differentials in the Nepalese Labour Market
spellingShingle Earnings and Caste: An Evaluation of Caste Wage Differentials in the Nepalese Labour Market
Mainali, Ram
Nepal
Caste Discrimination
Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition
title_short Earnings and Caste: An Evaluation of Caste Wage Differentials in the Nepalese Labour Market
title_full Earnings and Caste: An Evaluation of Caste Wage Differentials in the Nepalese Labour Market
title_fullStr Earnings and Caste: An Evaluation of Caste Wage Differentials in the Nepalese Labour Market
title_full_unstemmed Earnings and Caste: An Evaluation of Caste Wage Differentials in the Nepalese Labour Market
title_sort Earnings and Caste: An Evaluation of Caste Wage Differentials in the Nepalese Labour Market
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Mainali, Ram
Jafarey, Saqib
Montes Rojas, Gabriel Victorio
author Mainali, Ram
author_facet Mainali, Ram
Jafarey, Saqib
Montes Rojas, Gabriel Victorio
author_role author
author2 Jafarey, Saqib
Montes Rojas, Gabriel Victorio
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Nepal
Caste Discrimination
Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition
topic Nepal
Caste Discrimination
Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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 endowments. Our results indicate that caste wage differentials in Nepal are large and that human capital endowments and lack of access to better paying occupations and larger firms have a significant impact. Furthermore, we find mixed evidence that the government policy of affirmative action has narrowed down the caste wage differential.
Fil: Mainali, Ram. Ministry Of Finance; Nepal. City University of London; Reino Unido
Fil: Jafarey, Saqib. City University of London; Reino Unido
Fil: Montes Rojas, Gabriel Victorio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. City University of London; Reino Unido
description 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 endowments. Our results indicate that caste wage differentials in Nepal are large and that human capital endowments and lack of access to better paying occupations and larger firms have a significant impact. Furthermore, we find mixed evidence that the government policy of affirmative action has narrowed down the caste wage differential.
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