Disparity and discrimination in labour market outcomes in India : a quantitative analysis of inequalities / Vani Kant Borooah
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- 8058233
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- Book
- Author:
- Borooah, Vani Kant, author
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- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
- 1 online resource () : illustrations.
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- 9783030162641 (electronic book)
- 3030162648 (electronic book)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9783030162634
- Full contents:
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- Intro; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: The Labour Market in India; 1.1 Prologue; 1.2 Introduction; 1.3 Jobless Growth; 1.4 Labour Force Participation; 1.5 The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act; 1.6 Plan of the Book; References; 2: Labour Market Inequality; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Bayes' Theorem and Dominant and Subordinate Groups; 2.3 Employability and Social Groups; 2.3.1 Inter-group Disparities in Employment Outcomes; 2.3.2 A Numerical Example; 2.4 Defining Labour Market Risk Using Bayes' Theorem; 2.4.1 The Inverse Bayes Factor
- 2.5 Risk Ratio and Bayes Factor Calculations for the Indian Labour Market2.6 Measuring Inequality in Access to Employment; 2.7 Conclusions; References; 3: Discrimination and Job Reservation; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 A Multinomial Logit Model of Employment Outcomes; 3.3 The Method of Recycled Proportions; 3.4 Estimation Results; 3.4.1 Social Groups; 3.4.2 Education; 3.4.3 Household Consumption and Landholding Effects; 3.5 A Decomposition Method for Measuring Discrimination; 3.6 Discrimination and Job Reservation; 3.7 Extending Job Reservation to the Private Sector?; 3.8 Conclusions
- 5.2 Job Contracts5.3 Private Sector Jobs; 5.3.1 Who Gets What Jobs?; 5.4 Specifying the Likelihood of Holding a Permanent Job Equation; 5.5 The Predicted and Synthetic Probabilities of Being in a Permanent Job; 5.6 Estimates from the Likelihood of Holding a Permanent Job Equation; 5.7 Disparity and Discrimination in the Distribution of Permanent Jobs; 5.8 Conclusions; Appendix on Measures of Disproportionality; References; 6: Wage Inequality; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Wages in India; 6.3 The Decomposition of Wage Inequality; 6.4 The Equally Distributed Equivalent Wage
- 6.4.1 A Diagrammatic Analysis6.5 Gender Disparity and Discrimination in Monthly Wages; 6.5.1 Quantifying Gender Discrimination in Wages; 6.6 Caste Disparity and Discrimination in Monthly Wages; 6.6.1 Quantifying Caste Discrimination in Wages; 6.7 Conclusions; References; 7: The Way Forward; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Social Exclusion; 7.3 The "Confidence Multiplier"; 7.4 Interventions to Protect Members of the Scheduled Castes; 7.4.1 Affirmative Action; 7.5 Improving Attributes Through Equal Opportunities; References; Index
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- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 19, 2019).
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- Labor market -- India
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