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Title: Gender Wage Gaps and Worker Mobility: Evidence from the Garment Sector in Bangladesh

Author(s): Andreas Menzel and Christopher Woodruff

Publication Date: March 2019

Keyword(s): Export-oriented manufacturing, Gender wage gaps and monopsony in motion

Programme Area(s): Development Economics and Labour Economics

Abstract: Data from 70 large export-oriented garment manufacturers in Bangladesh show that gender wage gaps are similar to those found in higher-income countries. Among pro-duction workers, women's wages are 8 percent lower. We show that by combining short administrative panels, survey data from a representative sample of workers, and struc-ture, we can estimate how the wage gap evolves over workers' careers. Gender differ-ences in internal and across-factory promotions contribute roughly equally to the emergence of the gender gap over worker careers. Differences in promotion rates ap-pear to arise mainly from career concerns rather than frictions coming from household responsibilities.

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Menzel, A and Woodruff, C. 2019. 'Gender Wage Gaps and Worker Mobility: Evidence from the Garment Sector in Bangladesh'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13577