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Roles of Education in Expenditure Inequality between Urban and Rural Areas: Indonesia, the Philippines, and India
This study selects Indonesia, the Philippines, and India among Asian develo** countries and, based on household survey data, examines the...
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Decomposition of Inequality of Opportunity in India: An Application of Data-Driven Machine Learning Approach
This paper introduces a novel measure of inequality of opportunity (IOp) in India, by comparing both ex-ante and ex-post results, which aligns with...
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Inequality of Opportunity in Changing Access to Employment in India: A Panel Study
Labour market segmentation on the lines of caste, religion, gender, and parental characteristics is well documented in the literature. Evidence...
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Employment status and wealth inequality between scheduled caste and other caste households in India
In the early 1990s, the proponents of the economic reforms believed that liberalization of the market would reduce the economic inequality and...
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Intergenerational Co-residence and Women’s Employment in Urban India
Re-emerging joint families and declining female labour force participation rates (FLFPR) are the two paradoxical consequences of India’s steady...
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Is Informal Urban in India?
We have become familiar with the word “urban informal” from the discovery of the sector itself. Urbanization with capitalist expansion has involved...
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Decomposing Skill Based Wage Inequality in India: An Application of Theil Index
Wage inequality is one of the most prominent topics of discussion across the world. The study is an attempt to estimate wage inequality in-between...
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Measurement of Multidimensional Inequality of Opportunity in India
In recent years, the discussion on distributional analysis for social justice has increasingly focused on inequality in opportunities and basic life...
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Social Identity, Gender and Unequal Opportunity of Earning in Urban India: 2017–2018 to 2019–2020
This study measures inequality of opportunity in earnings of different types of workers living in urban locations by using methodology similar to...
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Determinants of Female Labour Force Participation in Urban India: Does Outdoor Air Pollution Matter?
The paper contributes the literature in the following ways: (a) It establishes negative sole impact of urban outdoor air-pollution and its...
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The Crisis of Extreme Inequality in India
The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdowns have exposed and exacerbated the crisis of extreme inequalities in India. Using multiple nationally...
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Financial Development and Income Inequality in Newly Industrialized Countries: Does Financial Kuznets Curve Exists?
The aim of this study is to test the validity of the classical Kuznets curve and financial Kuznets curve (FKC) hypotheses. In addition, in this...
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Nature of employment and outcomes for urban labor: evidence from the latest labor force surveys in India
Given its size and level of income, India faces unique challenges in the labor market. In the urban labor force of nearly 100 million, half of the...
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Exploring socioeconomic-related inequality in children’s cognitive achievement in Peru
This paper applies the concentration index to estimate socioeconomic-related inequality in language skills among children aged 5 to 15, using...
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How manufacturing and service industries affect regional inequality? Evidence from China
By integrating the literature on urban specialization and externalities, this paper proposes that the industrial sector is likely to reduce regional...
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Geostatistical analysis of quality of life (QoL) with particular emphasis on the basic amenities and services in urban West Bengal, India
Quality of life is said to be intimately interlinked with the process of urbanization and development because urbanization is regarded as a...
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Income inequality and economic growth in BRICS: insights from non-parametric techniques
The income inequality-economic growth linkage is a topical issue in economics and policy discussions. Both theoretical and empirical results on the...
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What drives demand for private tutoring in secondary education? Evidence from India
Private tutoring is widespread in India, and its demand is growing over time. In this paper, we employ a two-step Heckman selection model to analyse...
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Gender gap in poverty biased by caste in India: an empirical analysis
Gender inequality is a major obstacle to the overall progress of the human race. Women empowerment, defined as an adequate representation of women in...
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Unequal Inequalities in India: Income and Non-income Dimensions
We have focused on a range of issues that have surfaced in discussions on the growing economic inequality in India in both income and non-income...