abstract: 'The study estimates marginal impacts of household specific determinants

  (demographic, skill, security and mobility factors) on wages earned by

  laborers belonging to different quantile classes in agriculture and

  non-agricultural sectors. The results demonstrate superiority of

  varying-coefficients approach (Quantile Regression) over

  constant-coefficient approach (OLS) in terms of robustness and wider

  policy implications of estimated associations between variables.

  Different factors affect wages differently across different quantile

  classes which imply that policies aiming towards improving wages shall

  have differential strategies for specific target group. The evidences

  clearly point towards a strong need to raise education level and impart

  technical skills to laborers for improving their income, accelerating

  employment diversification towards non-farm sectors and equitable

  development in the society. Largely, Indian labor market has been found

  to be informal and unorganized. The access to social security benefits

  bears positive association with the wages.'
affiliation: 'Srivastava, SK (Corresponding Author), NITI Aayog, New Delhi, India.

  Balaji, S. J., ICAR Natl Inst Agr Econ \& Policy Res, New Delhi, India.

  Srivastava, S. K., NITI Aayog, New Delhi, India.'
author: Balaji, S. J. and Srivastava, S. K.
author-email: shivendraiari@gmail.com
author_list:
- family: Balaji
  given: S. J.
- family: Srivastava
  given: S. K.
da: '2023-09-28'
files: []
issn: 2454-7395
journal: STATISTICS AND APPLICATIONS
keywords: 'Quantile regression; Wage determination; Agriculture; Non-farm sector;

  India'
keywords-plus: INEQUALITY
language: English
number: 1, SI
number-of-cited-references: '17'
orcid-numbers: 'Balaji, S/0000-0002-7324-4853

  '
pages: 261-274
papis_id: 76fa802d12681685cdcad8080dc5b5de
ref: Balaji2019interintra
researcherid-numbers: 'Balaji, S/J-1864-2019

  NIAP, LIBRARY ICAR/ABB-6258-2020

  Srivastava, Shivendra Kumar/ABD-7503-2020'
times-cited: '0'
title: 'Inter and Intra Sectoral Wage Determinants in Indian Casual-Labor Market:
  Agricultural and Structural Change Implications'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000502090400020
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '2'
volume: '17'
web-of-science-categories: Statistics \& Probability
year: '2019'