Caste, Religion and Job Market (Aakanksha et al. 2025)

English Podcast Start at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Start at 00:19:13Hindi Podcast Start at 00:26:12🎙️✨ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit — the podcast where research gets real, and insights meet intrigue!Today, we’re diving into a paper that doesn’t just crunch numbers — it slices straight through the soul of India’s labour market. 🧠💥📝 Title: Explicit Two-Source Extractors and Resilient Functions👥 Authors: Aakanksha Singh Saharan, Bharat Singhal, and Narendra Kumar Bishnoi📚 Journal: Journal of Public Affairs📆 Published on: 17 June 2025🏛️ Publisher: WileyBut hold up… this isn’t about just theory or algorithms. No, no, no — this is about who earns what and why, across the vast and varied social fabric of India. 🇮🇳💼Using detailed Periodic Labour Force Survey data from 2017 to 2020, the authors tackle a question that’s both simple and seismic: Do caste and religion still dictate the returns to education in modern India?💰 Why does a Scheduled Tribe member earn more in a salaried job but less when self-employed?🕌 Why do Muslims face penalties in some job sectors but earn more in others?⛪ Why do Christians and Sikhs consistently earn premiums? And what about Buddhists, who seem to get the short end of the wage stick across the board?The findings are sharp. The conclusions, uncomfortable. Discrimination is not a whisper — it’s a statistic, and it’s staring us in the face. 📊👀So here’s the question: In a country racing toward digital dreams and global markets, can we truly rise if our labour markets still kneel to caste and creed?💡Thanks to the brilliant authors — Aakanksha Singh Saharan, Bharat Singhal, and Narendra Kumar Bishnoi — for bringing this critical research into the light.🚀 If today’s episode made you think, pause, or furiously scribble notes — then don’t forget to subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify 🎧 and our YouTube channel Weekend Researcher 📺.We're also streaming on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcast 🍎🎙️ — because your next big insight could be just one play away.Until next time, keep revising, keep resubmitting… and keep questioning. 💭🤔ReferenceAakanksha, Singhal, B., & Bishnoi, N. K. (2025). Caste, Religion and Job Market. Journal of Public Affairs, 25(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.70052‌Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcherSupport us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/weekendresearcher