Browsing Farzana Munshi by Author "Department of Economics and Social Sciences, BRAC University"
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Does openness reduce wage inequality in developing countries? Panel data evidence from Bangladesh
Munshi, FarzanaThis paper provides panel data evidence on trade liberalization and wage inequality in Bangladesh. Using several standard econometric models, wage equations for skilled and unskilled workers in the formal manufacturing ... -
Globalisation and inter-occupational inequality: Empirical evidence from OECD countries
Bigsten, Arne; Munshi, FarzanaHow does globalisation affect inter-occupational wage inequality within countries? This paper examines this by focusing on two dimensions of globalisation: openness to trade and openness to capital flows, using a relatively ... -
Offshoring and occupational wages: some empirical evidence
Bigsten, Arne; Munshi, Farzana; Durevall, DickOffshoring has changed the pattern of international competition; labor in specific occupations rather than whole firms and sectors are now facing competition. Accordingly, wages in offshorable occupations are affected in ... -
Transitions between informal and formal employment: results from a worker survey in Bangladesh
Gutierrez, Italo A.; Kumar, Krishna B.; Mahmud, Minhaj; Munshi, Farzana; Nataraj, Shanthi (© 2017 RAND Corporation, 2017-07)We document transitions between different types of formal and informal employment using retrospective job histories from a new survey of 2,000 workers in two metropolitan areas of Bangladesh. We find that workers transitioning ...