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Does Fintech Narrow the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from China / Guo, Qing; Chen, Siyu ; Zeng, Xiangquan

Guo, Qing	Journal Article
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Information and communication technology promotes the rapid development of fintech, which has a far-reaching impact on wage distribution in China. Using data from the Chinese General Social Survey and the Index of Digital Financial Inclusion, this study examines the impact of fintech on the gender wage gap. We find that fintech (i) narrows the gender wage gap; (ii) reduces capital constraints and operating costs, thereby promoting female entrepreneurship, driving more women into employment, and enabling women to increase their wages and bargaining power within the household; and (iii) positively impacts the wages of women (and men) who have lower family economic status, and helps women (but not men) counter the risk of decline in wages caused by childbearing and caring under the two-child policy. These findings have important policy implications and provide evidence of women's improving economic conditions leading to a reduced gender wage gap.

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Entrepreneurship ; Gender Wage Gap ; Fi Ntech ; Two-Child Policy

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ID: 127146

Gender pay equity in advanced countries: the role of parenthood and policies / Misra, Joya; Strader, Eiko

Misra, Joya	Journal Article
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2013.

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Employment ; Gender Gap ; Parenthood ; Gender Wage Gap ; Motherhood Penalities ; Maternity Leaves ;
Paternity Leaves ; Gender Pay Equity

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ID: 165370

Male–Female Wage Gap and Informal Employment in Bangladesh: A Quantile Regression Approach / Rahman, Mustafizur

Rahman, Mustafizur	Journal Article
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This article undertakes an examination of Bangladesh’s latest available Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2015–2016 data to draw in-depth insights on gender wage gap and wage discrimination in Bangladesh labour market. The mean wage decomposition shows that on average a woman in Bangladesh earns 12.2 per cent lower wage than a man, and about half of the wage gap can be explained by labour market discrimination against women. Quantile counterfactual decomposition shows that women are subject to higher wage penalty at the lower deciles of the wage distribution with the wage gap varying between 8.3 per cent and 19.4 per cent at different deciles. We have found that at lower deciles, a significant part of the gender wage gap is on account of the relatively larger presence of informal employment. Conditional quantile estimates further reveal that formally employed female workers earn higher wage than their male counterparts at the first decile but suffer from wage penalty at the top deciles.

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Quantile Regression ; Quantile Decomposition ; Gender Wage Gap ; Informal Employment ; Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition

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Yuan and Roubles: comparing wage determination in urban China and Russia at the beginning of the new millennium / Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi ; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila ; Wan, Haiyuan

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Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared by using samples covering large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We confirm that earnings inequality has increased rapidly in both countries and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased while the publically employed in China enjoy a positive payoff of limited magnitude.

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China ; Russia ; Wages ; Wage Inequality ; Gender Wage Gap

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