Wage Rate: Is this Return to Education or Return to Physical Capability? Evidence from Rural India
- Title
- Wage Rate: Is this Return to Education or Return to Physical Capability? Evidence from Rural India
- Creator
- Singha Roy N.
- Description
- This paper estimates the wage function for daily labor market participants inSemi-Arid Tropics of rural India within a traditional agrarian framework. Village level data on 18 villages for 20092010 and 20122013 have been used for this study. Three-years balanced panel estimation has also been conducted to test the time invariance of the findings from the cross-sectional study. A modified Mincerian earning equation is estimated for different types of workersregressing upon a set of human capital measures, socioeconomic factors and, demand influences after correcting for potential sample selection bias. The study finds differential impacts of education and physical ability to determine wages for male and female workers. It reveals the greater importance of education in explaining wages of male laborers while for females, nutritional status playing a significant role than education in wage determination process. Among the other factors, drought worksas a major exogenous shock and hence impacts wages badly. Working in the non-farm sector has a significant impact on wages.Also, thewageparticipation relationship has found more operativein the lower section of the society. 2020, Indian Society of Labour Economics.
- Source
- Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol-63, No. 1, pp. 99-117.
- Date
- 2020-01-01
- Publisher
- Springer
- Subject
- Cross-sectional analysis; Demand factors; Human capital; India; Panel data model; Rural; Wages
- Coverage
- Singha Roy N., Department of Economics, Christ University, Hosur Road, Bengaluru, 560029, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 9717927
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Singha Roy N., “Wage Rate: Is this Return to Education or Return to Physical Capability? Evidence from Rural India,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed April 29, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/16326.