Wage inequality in Indian manufacturing: Is it trade, technology or labour regulations?

dc.contributor.author	Ramaswamy, K.V
dc.date.accessioned	2012-05-31T09:17:50Z
dc.date.available	2012-05-31T09:17:50Z
dc.date.issued	2012-05-31
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2275/87
dc.description.abstract	This paper investigates the question of wage inequality in Indian manufacturing in the years of trade and investment liberalization. The objective is to test the hypothesis of skill biased technological change (SBTC) due to capital-skill complementarity and the impact of labour regulations on wage inequality between skilled and unskilled labour. The skill-wage bill share equation is estimated for a panel of 46 three-digit industries spanning the period 1981-2004 followed by 113 four-digit industries panel covering the period 1993 to 2004.The econometric results suggest the positive contribution of change in output (scale effect), capital-output ratio and contract-worker intensity to wage inequality in Indian manufacturing.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	WP;WP-2008-021
dc.subject	Wages inequality	en_US
dc.subject	Skill	en_US
dc.subject	Technological change	en_US
dc.subject	Labour	en_US
dc.subject	Manufacturing	en_US
dc.title	Wage inequality in Indian manufacturing: Is it trade, technology or labour regulations?	en_US
dc.type	Working Paper	en_US