Gender gap in earnings in Vietnam: why do Vietnamese women work in lower paid occupations?

Differences in earnings between male and female workers persist in developed and developing countries despite a narrowing of gender gaps in educational attainment over the past half-century. This paper examines the gender wage gap in Vietnam and shows that a nontrivial part of the gap is associated with occupational sorting. The paper considers three explanations for why occupational sorting emerges. First, it explores whether women sort into occupations with better nonmonetary characteristics, such as paid leave and shorter hours. The data from Labor Force Surveys support this hypothesis. Sec... Show more

Authors: Chowdhury, Iffat; Johnson, Hillary C.; Mannava, Aneesh ... [+] Show more

Published: Washington, District of Columbia, World Bank, 2018

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 38 p.

Access item: http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/717051525869722243/Gender-gap-in-earnings-in-Vietnam-why-do-Vietnamese-women-work-in-lower-paid-occupations

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