The Gender impact in Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Sri Lanka

Thankom Arun; Vani Borooah

The Gender impact in Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Sri Lanka

Thankom Arun, Vani Borooah

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Abstract

This paper estimates an earnings function for Sri Lanka, followed by a decomposition analysisof male-female earnings suggest that the gender disparity in earnings largely represents‘discrimination’ against women. The findings showed that irrespective of their “inferior” labourmarket attributes, men had average earnings that were considerably higher than the femaleaverage and that this could be attributed entirely to discrimination in favour of male earners.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	71-80
Journal	International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied Research
Volume	2
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - Aug 2011

Bibliographical note

Reference text: Ahluwalia, M., 1976, ‘Income distribution and development. Some stylized facts’, American
Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 66, 2, pp. 128-135.
Cunningham, W. and Joyce, J., 2003, ‘Earnings inequality within and across Gender, racial
and ethnic groups in Latin America’, Background paper for the World Bank LAC
Report Inequality and the State in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Dunham, D. and Sisira, J., 2000, ‘Equity, Growth and Insurrection: Liberalization and the
welfare debate in Contemporary Sri Lanka’, Oxford Development Studies, 28, 1, pp.
97-110.
Glewwe, P., 1986, ‘The Distributionof Income in Sri Lanka in 1969-70 and 1980-81: A
Decomposition Analysis’, Journal of Development Economics, 24, pp. 255-274.
Glewwe, P., 1988, ‘Economic Liberalisation and Income Inequality: Further Evidence on
the Sri Lankan Experience’, Journal of Development Economics, 28, pp. 233-246.
Knight, J. and Song, L. and Jia, H., 2001, ‘Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises:
Three perspectives’, Journal of Development Studies, 35, 3, pp. 73-104.
Knight, J., Song, L., 2003, ‘Increasing urban wage inequality in China’, Economics of
Transition, 11, 4, pp. 596-619.
Kuznets, S., 1955, ‘Economic Growth and income inequality’, American Economic Review,
45, pp. 1-25.

Keywords

Inequality
Earnings
Gender
Sri Lanka

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