The garments sector of Bangladesh now accounts for over 64% of the country's total export earnings. In this industry, not only the size of female employment is large, the ratio of female to male employment is also very large. Both unskilled and semi-skilled women workers have an opportunity to...

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