Papers presented at the Workshop: Labour in South Asia : Labour Relationships, Identities and Bondage , held at Pondicherry during 7-9 February 2006 and Workshop: Debt Bondage : Issues and Perspectives, held at New Delhi during 19-20 April 2007

Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning differentials reflect variations in productive traits, a significant component of the differences in income inequality across societies can be attributed to variation in societal...