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This study develops an insight into the discriminatory workings of the labour market and their unequal outcomes with respect to employment, wages, and occupations and their impact on the poverty of untouchable (Scheduled Caste) wage workers in India. It develops an understanding on the persistence of caste inequality in employment, wages, and occupations between the untouchables and the higher castes in the private and public sectors in India. It identifies the causes of high unemployment and low wages of the untouchable workers and their segregation in low-paid occupations. It then goes on to estimate the extent to which caste discrimination results in low employment and wages and engagement of untouchable workers into low-paid occupations. In the end, it provides convincing empirical evidence on the employment discrimination and wage discrimination and its impact on reduced wage incomes and increased poverty of the untouchable wage workers. Estimation of discrimination in employment, unemployment, and occupation and its impact on income and poverty of the untouchables is a net addition to the existing knowledge on the subject. |
