Pay differences between teachers and other occupations: some empirical evidence from Bangladesh

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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 differentia...

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Authors: Niaz Asadullah, M

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) Publisher's website
• Series: SKOPE Research Paper
• Place of publication: http://www.skope.ox.ac.uk/publications
• Publication date: 2005-01-01
• ISSN: 1466-1535
• Paper number: 58, November 2005
• Language: English
• Keywords: JEL:I20; JEL:H52; teacher salaries; wage-gap decomposition; JEL:J31
• Subjects: Education