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A Distributional Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh.

This article empirically investigates the gender wage gap in Bangladesh during the period 2005–2009. Applying unconditional quantile regression models, the article demonstrates that women are paid less than men throughout the wage distribution and the gap is higher at the lower end of the distributi...

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Published in:Journal of Development Studies Vol. 51; no. 11; pp. 1444 - 1459
Main Authors: Ahmed, Salma, Maitra, Pushkar
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov2015
Subjects:
Wage differentials
Employment discrimination
Sex discrimination against women
Full-time employment
Quantile regression
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