abstract: 'This paper is in empirical attempt to quantify caste-based

  discrimination in the labor market using household data taken from rural

  North India. In the regression analysis, transaction costs associated

  with entry into the labor market and reservation wages are estimated

  simultaneously along with market wages. The estimation results provide

  evidence of the existence of transaction costs in the labor market and

  discrimination against backward classes with regard to access to regular

  employment. In line with previous studies, the results suggest that the

  achievements of India''s reservation policy so far have at best been

  limited. In addition, a comparison between the estimates from the model

  employed in this paper and conventional (reduced-form) approaches shows

  that discrimination in labor market entry is likely to be underestimated

  in the conventional reduced-form approaches. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All

  rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Ito, T (Corresponding Author), Hitotsubashi Univ, Grad Sch Econ, 2-1
  Naka, Tokyo 1868601, Japan.

  Hitotsubashi Univ, Grad Sch Econ, Tokyo 1868601, Japan.'
author: Ito, Takahiro
author-email: ed044001@g.hit-u.ac.jp
author_list:
- family: Ito
  given: Takahiro
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.06.002
eissn: 1872-6089
files: []
issn: 0304-3878
journal: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
keywords: Regular employment; Casual employment; Labor market; India
keywords-plus: SUPPLY RESPONSE; SHADOW WAGES; INEQUALITY; PRODUCTIVITY; INCOME
language: English
month: MAR
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '28'
orcid-numbers: Ito, Takahiro/0000-0003-1002-2214
pages: 292-300
papis_id: e7d47b3dbf80119ad37fd2b6dda12041
ref: Ito2009castediscrimination
researcherid-numbers: Ito, Takahiro/N-1471-2013
times-cited: '52'
title: 'Caste discrimination and transaction costs in the labor market: Evidence from
  rural North India'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000261967200011
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '16'
volume: '88'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2009'