Religious Identity-Based Inequality in the Labour Market: Policy Challenges in India

Kesar, Surbhi and Abraham, Rosa (2023) Religious Identity-Based Inequality in the Labour Market: Policy Challenges in India. In: Poverty and Prejudice : Religious Inequality and the Struggle for Sustainable Development. Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK. ISBN 9781529229066

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Abstract

The Indian economy has registered a sustained, almost four decades long, period of high economic growth. However, not only is this period marked by long spans of jobless and job-loss growth (Kannan and Raveendran 2019), but the economic gains of growth have remained unequally distributed along the lines of social and economic identities, especially gender, religion and caste. For example, Azam et al (2022) find that income mobility in India over the growth period has not been able to offset the existing caste and religion-based social hierarchies, and Asher et al (2018) find Muslims overall suffered downward occupational mobility.

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