Bad Karma or Discrimination?: Male-Female Wage Gaps among Salaried Workers in India
By Ashwini Deshpande, Deepti Goel, and Shantanu Khanna
14 pages… the existence of the “sticky floor”, in that wage gaps are higher at lower ends of the distribution and steadily decline over the distribution. Machado-Mata-Melly decompositions reveal that women at the lower end of the distribution face higher discriminatory gaps in wages.