Disadvantage and discrimination in self-employment: caste gaps in earnings in Indian small businesses

Small Business Economics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 325-346

  Deshpande, Ashwini ^a   Sharma, Smriti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Caste; Discrimination; Earning gaps; Household business; India; Quantile decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955347199     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-015-9687-4     Document Type: Article

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