Labour Market Discrimination and Earning Differentials - An Evidence from Uttar Pradesh Based on NSS Data
-Nomita P. Kumar,Fellow, Giri Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow
Economists consider discrimination in the labour market to take two forms i.e. wage discrimination and job discrimination. Gender specific segregation is regarded as a stable and rigid phenomenon that exists in traditional as well as modern societies (Rothboeck and Acharya, 1999). Various studies underlines the persistence of gender segregated labour market globally
Labour Market Discrimination and Earning Differentials - An Evidence from Uttar Pradesh Based on NSS Data