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A Distributional Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh

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  • Salma Ahmed
  • Pushkar Maitra

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This paper decomposes the gender wage gap along the entire wage distribution into an endowment effect and a discrimination effect, taking into account possible selection into full-time employment. Applying a new decomposition approach to the Bangladesh Labour Force Survey (LFS) data we find that women are paid less than men every where on the wage distribution and the gap is higher at the lower end of the distribution. Discrimination against women is the primary determinant of the wage gap. We also find that the gap has widened over the period 1999 - 2005. Our results intensify the call for better enforcement of gender based affirmative action policies.

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Paper provided by Monash University, Department of Economics in its series Monash Economics Working Papers with number 20-11.

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Length: 35 pages
Date of creation: Sep 2011
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Handle: RePEc:mos:moswps:2011-20

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Keywords: Gender wage Gap; Discrimination Effect; Selection; Unconditional Quantile Regression; Bangladesh;

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