Changes in Wage Trends and Earnings Differences in Kerala

Title

Changes in Wage Trends and Earnings Differences in Kerala

Creator

Aneesh M.R.

Description

In this article, the weekly earnings gap between men and women in Kerala is examined by a number of inequality indices such as the percentile ratio and the Gini coefficient. The entropy measures of inequality are used to decompose wage inequality into within-group and between-group inequalities. The earnings inequality between men and women has been increasing, even though their wage grows faster than mens wage. The indices of inequality suggest the growing wage disparity in the regular and casual labour market. The result reveals that the levels of education and earnings are positively correlated, but women with the same level of education earn much less than men in regular salaried work. The rising wage inequality of men and women during 20042009 were associated with the growth rate of wages in the same period. That is, the wage rates of both regular and casual workers have increased more than four per cent during the period that experienced the highest inequality. 2019, Indian Society of Labour Economics.

Source

Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol-61, No. 4, pp. 623-638.

Date

2018-01-01

Publisher

Springer

Subject

Earnings; Employment; Inequality; Labour; Wage differences

Coverage

Aneesh M.R., Christ (Deemed University), Bannerghatta Road Campus, Hulimavu, Bengaluru, 560076, Karnataka, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 9717927

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/s41027-018-0149-9

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