SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PAPERS

THE WORLD BANK Paper No. 97/ June 2006 Do Traditional Axes of Exclusion Affect Labor Market Outcomes in India? Part I: Female Labor Force Participation And the Effects of Gender Part II: Caste, Ethnicity and the Indian Labor Market Maitreyi Bordia Das Originally written as a background paper for the India Labor and Employment Study. The author is grateful to Sergiy Biletsky for superb research assistance and to early comments from Ahmad Ahsan and Carmen Pages and to members of the authors group who attended the videoconference on September 19, 2005. SOUTH ASIA SERIES 36963