Pay differences between teachers and other occupations: Some empirical evidence from Bangladesh |
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Authors: | Mohammad Niaz Asadullah |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Economics, Business School, University of Reading, HUMSS Building, P.O. Box 218, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AA, UK;bESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), University of Oxford, Department of Economics, Manor Road, Oxford OX1 3UQ, UK |
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Abstract: | This paper addresses a popular debate on teacher pay in a developing country context, namely whether teachers are under-paid or over-paid. Using national level household survey data from Bangladesh, we find that teachers are significantly under-paid in comparison to non-teachers who possess similar human capital and other observed characteristics. A decomposition exercise of the teacher non-teacher wage gap reveals that the teacher non-teacher salary difference is driven mostly by differential returns to observed characteristics. Our results suggest that there is some equity justification for allowing an “across-the-board” increase in teacher pay particularly for female, rural and aided school teachers in Bangladesh. |
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Keywords: | Teacher salaries Wage-gap decomposition |
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