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A Division of Laborers: Identity and Efficiency in India / Guilhem Cassan, Daniel Keniston, Tatjana Kleineberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cassan, Guilhem.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28462.
- NBER working paper series no. w28462
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- Workers' social identity affects their occupation, and therefore the structure and prosperity of the aggregate economy. We estimate a general equilibrium Roy model of this phenomenon in the Indian caste system, where work and identity are particularly intertwined. New data on occupation, wages, and caste's traditional occupations and social status show that workers are over-represented in their traditional occupations and under-represented in socially higher or lower occupations. We consider counterfactuals removing castes' hierarchical and occupational links. Despite more efficient human capital allocation, aggregate output gains are small-in some counterfactuals negative-due to weaker caste networks and reduced learning across generations.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2021.
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