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The Gender Pay Gap and Trade Liberalisation: Evidence for India

This paper uses nationally representative employment surveys to examine the magnitude of the gender pay gap in India and its relationship to a set of trade liberalisation measures. Separate wage equations, corrected for selection bias, are estimated for men and women in wage employment. Conventional...

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Main Author: Barry Reilly and Puja Vasudeva Dutta
Format: Printed Book
Published: PRUS Working Paper no. 32 2005
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Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/00890.pdf
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