01462nam a22001577a 4500 522070 522070 230310b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Madan, Sonu and Yadav, Manisha 38336 Decomposing skill based wage inequality in India: An application of Theil index The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 65(4), Oct-Dec, 2022: p.967-979 Wage inequality is one of the most prominent topics of discussion across the world. The study is an attempt to estimate wage inequality in-between and within various skill-based occupational groups in India. For the purpose, Theil index, one of the most important measures in generalised entropy family, has been utilised on the unit-level data of Periodic Labour Force Survey, 2017–18 (PLFS) pertaining to 94,460 workers employed across skill-categorised broad occupational groups. Wage inequality has observed to be highest in occupational groups requiring highly skilled workers (skill level 4), and the same is witnessed lowest among workers in occupations requiring low level of skill (skill level 1). The study found occupational diversity, diverse nature of work assignment in accordance with cognitive ability of workers the main reasons behind increasing wage inequalities.- Reproduced Wage inequality, Skill level, Occupational groups, Theil index. 36730 The Indian Journal of Labour Economics WAGES AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 396755 IIPA IIPA 2023-03-10 65(4), Oct-Dec, 2022: p.967-979 AR128333 2023-03-10 AR