Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35014 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3232
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the average (log) earnings of Hindu and Muslim wage earners in India, during the 1987-2005 period. Our results indicate that education differences between Hindu and Muslim wage earners, especially differences in the proportion of wage earners with tertiary education, are largely responsible for the differences in the average (log) earnings of the two religious groups across the years. By contrast, differences in the returns to education do not explain the aforementioned difference in average (log) earnings. In conclusion, we discuss some policy implications.
Subjects: 
Earnings gap
education
decomposition
religion
JEL: 
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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