abstract: 'This paper investigates gender wage inequality in Sri Lanka during

  1992-2014, a period of robust economic growth following pro-market

  reforms. The gap in mean wages between men and women decreased steadily

  over this period. Unconditional quantile regression reveals the decline

  in gender wage inequality was driven by the upper half of the

  distribution, and was due to improvements in women''s observable human

  capital. Yet, the pay structure became more unequal, indicating widening

  gender gaps in the returns to labor market characteristics and in

  unobservable determinants of wages. The gender gap in pay structure

  widened disproportionately in the lower half of the distribution,

  coinciding with falling absolute and relative returns to women in

  manufacturing industries and production occupations facing greater

  international competition. The study also demonstrates selection bias

  underestimates the gender wage gap and overestimates the gains in

  equality over time. Factors that hinder gender equality in the labor

  market are discussed along with policy implications. (C) 2020 Elsevier

  Ltd. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Seneviratne, P (Corresponding Author), Carleton Coll, 1 Coll St, Northfield,
  MN 55057 USA.

  Seneviratne, Prathi, Carleton Coll, 1 Coll St, Northfield, MN 55057 USA.'
article-number: '104878'
author: Seneviratne, Prathi
author-email: pseneviratne@carleton.edu
author_list:
- family: Seneviratne
  given: Prathi
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104878
eissn: 1873-5991
files: []
issn: 0305-750X
journal: WORLD DEVELOPMENT
keywords: 'Gender wage gap; Developing countries; South Asia; Sri Lanka; Quantile

  regression; Selection bias'
keywords-plus: 'LABOR-FORCE PARTICIPATION; SAMPLE SELECTION BIAS; PAY GAP; EARNINGS

  DIFFERENTIALS; DISCRIMINATION; WOMEN; EMPLOYMENT; CHINA; LIBERALIZATION;

  DECOMPOSITION'
language: English
month: MAY
number-of-cited-references: '85'
papis_id: 3c63c931a6f5506881e298012496ec67
ref: Seneviratne2020genderwage
times-cited: '3'
title: 'Gender wage inequality during Sri Lanka''s post-reform growth: A distributional
  analysis'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000519652400010
usage-count-last-180-days: '4'
usage-count-since-2013: '27'
volume: '129'
web-of-science-categories: Development Studies; Economics
year: '2020'