Education and Women's Labour Market Outcomes in India

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Caste discrimination and transaction costs in the labor market: Evidence from rural North India (2009, background): “In addition, Kingdon and Unni (2001) investigated gender-based discrimination in the urban labor market.”
Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation During India's Economic Boom (2012, background): “Kingdon and Unni (2001) attribute the downward sloping part of this U to the process of Sanskritization: social restrictions on the lifestyles of women tend to become more rigid as households move up in the caste hierarchy (Chen and Drèze, 1992), which would be reinforced by the negative income…”
International Trade and the Gender Wage Gap: New Evidence from India’s Manufacturing Sector (2009, result): “Our conclusion is supported by previous studies for India during the 1980s and 1990s that have found substantial gender wage gaps even after controlling for detailed skill characteristics (Duraisamy and Duraisamy 1996; Kingdon and Unni 2001; Glinskaya and Lokshin 2007).”
The Dynamics of Returns to Education in Kenyan and Tanzanian Manufacturing (2006, background): “Our data have enabled us to document changes in the returns to education in Kenya and Tanzania during the 1990s and also allowed a direct comparison with earlier work by Knight and Sabot (1990). It is clear that in both countries the returns to education have been variable since 1980.”