Male–Female Wage Gap and Informal Employment in Bangladesh: A Quantile Regression Approach

South Asia Economic Journal Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI:10.1177/1391561418824477

Mustafiz Rahman, Md. Al-Hasan

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Abstract

This article undertakes an examination of Bangladesh’s latest available Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2015–2016 data to draw in-depth insights on gender wage gap and wage discrimination in Bangladesh labour market. The mean wage decomposition shows that on average a woman in Bangladesh earns 12.2 per cent lower wage than a man, and about half of the wage gap can be explained by labour market discrimination against women. Quantile counterfactual decomposition shows that women are subject to higher wage penalty at the lower deciles of the wage distribution with the wage gap varying between 8.3 per cent and 19.4 per cent at different deciles. We have found that at lower deciles, a significant part of the gender wage gap is on account of the relatively larger presence of informal employment. Conditional quantile estimates further reveal that formally employed female workers earn higher wage than their male counterparts at the first decile but suffer from wage penalty at the top deciles. JEL: C21, J31, J46, J70

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孟加拉国男女工资差距与非正式就业:分位数回归方法

本文对孟加拉国最新的2015-2016年季度劳动力调查数据进行了研究，以深入了解孟加拉国劳动力市场的性别工资差距和工资歧视。平均工资分解显示，孟加拉国女性的平均工资比男性低12.2%，其中约一半的工资差距可以用劳动力市场对女性的歧视来解释。分位数反事实分解表明，在工资分配的较低十分位数，妇女受到较高的工资惩罚，不同十分位数的工资差距在8.3%至19.4%之间。我们发现，在较低的十分位数，性别工资差距的很大一部分是由于非正式就业的相对较大的存在。有条件的分位数估计进一步揭示，正式就业的女性工人在前十分位数的工资高于男性同行，但在前十分位数的工资受到惩罚。j21, j31, j46, j70

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South Asia Economic Journal Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all)

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