Earnings and Caste: An Evaluation of Caste Wage Differentials in the Nepalese Labour Market
研究了尼泊尔种姓间的工资差异，使用扩展的Oaxaca分解模型发现人力资本和职业隔离是主要因素，并评估了平权政策的效果。
This paper examines the sources of wage differentials among castes in Nepal, a country which had, until 1963, an age-old caste-based social division of labour. We use an extended Oaxaca decomposition model with occupation and firm size augmenting the conventionally used measures of human capital endowments. Our results indicate that caste wage differentials in Nepal are large and that human capital endowments and lack of access to better paying occupations and larger firms have a significant impact. Furthermore, we find mixed evidence that the government policy of affirmative action has narrowed down the caste wage differential.