Begum, SalmaJeheen, Nubayra2023-01-162023-01-1620222022-07ID: 20175004http://hdl.handle.net/10361/17726Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 39-47).This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Applied Economics, 2022.Conducting a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique and a modified Recentered Influence Function quantile regression using the Bangladesh Labour Force Survey 2016-17, the paper estimates the gender wage differential and the impact of intrinsic motivation in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. The study finds that nonprofits pay a relatively higher wage to their employees, supporting the intrinsic motivation-productivity hypothesis. However, the results cannot conclusively state that nonprofits exhibit a lower gender wage gap in light of this hypothesis. On the other hand, the gender earnings gap for for-profits is primarily driven by differences in worker endowments. Male for-profit workers suffer from a substantive wage penalty compared to the men employed in nonprofits with similar quantified attributes. No such penalty is found for women. The author also finds evidence of a glass ceiling within the nonprofits and a sticky-floor within for-profits.52 Pagesen-USBrac University theses are protected by copyright. This may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.Intrinsic motivationNonprofitsGender wage gapEndowmentDiscriminationWage differentials--BangladeshMotivation (Psychology)Thesis