Sectoral wage gaps and gender in rural India
利用印度农村家庭面板数据，发现非农与农业部门的工资差距对女性远大于男性，且女性在非农就业中工作时间更少，表明约束阻碍了女性转向更高收入的就业机会。
Abstract Using detailed monthly household panel data from rural India, I analyze sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I show that the wage gap across the non‐farm and farm sectors is much higher for women than for men. Relative to men, women also work less time in non‐farm wage employment than in farm wage employment. Taken together, these findings suggest that constraints are preventing women from reallocating their time to more remunerative wage employment opportunities. Women are less likely to work outside of their own village in the non‐farm sector, yet the wage gap is driven by higher caste and married women. These results are consistent with a lack of local non‐farm employment opportunities interacting with barriers to labor mobility for women but not men.