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Title
Caste discrimination and transaction costs in the labor market : Evidence from rural North India
Creator
Creator Name
Ito, Takahiro Ito, Takahiro
伊藤, 高弘 伊藤, 高弘
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Hitotsubashi University
Rights
Copyright(C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. The definitive version is published in Journal of Development Economics, 2008, DOI:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.06.002.
Key Word
regular employment
casual employment
labor market
India
JEL
D23
J22
J24
J71
Abstract
This paper is an empirical attempt to quantify caste-based discrimination in the labor market using household data taken from rural North India. In the regression analysis, transaction costs associated with entry into the labor market and reservation wages are estimated simultaneously along with market wages. The estimation results provide evidence of the existence of transaction costs in the labor market and discrimination against backward classes with regard to access to regular employment. In line with previous studies, the results suggest that the achievements of India’s reservation policy so far have at best been limited. In addition, a comparison between the estimates from the model employed in this paper and conventional (reduced-form) approaches shows that discrimination in labor market entry is likely to be underestimated in the conventional reduced-form approaches.
Publisher
Elsevier Science B.V.
Issued Date
2009-03
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
journal article
Version Type
AM
Is Version OfRelation -
Related Identifier
DOI
  10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.06.002
ISSN
0304-3878
NCID
AA00251640
Source Title
Journal of development economics
Volume Number
88
Issue Number
2
Page Start
292
Page End
300
Appears in Collections
010a Journal Articles　=　雑誌掲載論文
URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10086/16275