01578nam a22001817a 4500 510253 510253 190808b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Rahman, Mustafizur 7924 Male-female wage gap and informal employment in Bangladesh: a quantile regression approach 2019 p.106-123. 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. - Reproduced. Wages - Bangladesh 7925 Women employment - Bangladesh 7926 Al-Hasan, Md. 7927 South Asia Economic Journal Employment - Bangladesh AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 384193 IIPA IIPA 2019-08-08 20(1), Mar, 2019: p.106-123. AR120204 2019-08-08 AR