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Published Article

Gender wage gaps and worker mobility

Evidence from the garment sector in Bangladesh

Data from 70 large export-oriented garment manufacturers in Bangladesh show that women’s wages are 20 percent lower than men’s and are 8 percent lower even among narrowly-defined production workers. A significant gap remains even after controlling for very precisely measured skills. Longer careers of men in the sector explain around half of the wage gap, with the other half due in roughly equal parts to differences in internal and across-factory promotion rates. Our results are most consistent with broader gender norms, beyond gendered household responsibilities, driving the gap.

Title Gender wage gaps and worker mobility
Author
  • Christopher Woodruff
  • Andreas Menzel
Published in Labour Economics 2021, Volume 71, 102000
Publication Date 06/07/2021
Project Building Management Hierarchies for Growth in LICs
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