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100			_aRahman, Mustafizur _97924
245			_aMale-female wage gap and informal employment in Bangladesh: a quantile regression approach
260			_c2019
300			_ap.106-123.
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aWages - Bangladesh _97925
650			_aWomen employment - Bangladesh _97926
700			_aAl-Hasan, Md. _97927
773			_aSouth Asia Economic Journal
906			_aEmployment - Bangladesh
942			_cAR