CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Tanha, Tansum |
|---|---|
| Title | UNRAVELING THE SUPPLY SIDE DYNAMICS OF HOME TUTORING An Informal Job Market in Bangladesh |
| Summary | The study discusses the labor supply dynamics of home tutoring in Bangladesh, assessing home tutors’ wage perception and labor supply elasticity. The aim is to find out the dynamics of labor supply in this sector, the existing inequalities and differences, and understand the underlying mechanisms behind them. Since this is an informal job market, there is no wage transparency. With such information asymmetry, people have different perceptions on what wage and working days to settle down for and certain groups of people end up bargaining for far less. There are also possibilities of different groups of people having different wage responsiveness and labor supply elasticity that can create or widen the wage discrimination. As such, the findings of this study suggest that female home tutors have higher wage responsiveness and labor supply elasticity than male home tutors. Female home tutors also have lower wage expectation as well as lower monthly income than male tutors. This research explores the supply side dynamics of home tutoring in Bangladesh, how it looks, address the wage discrimination between male and female home tutors that can arise due to differences in wage responsiveness and labor supply elasticity, and recommend policies to make the field more fair to all home tutors. |
| Supervisor | Koster, Mats |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/tanha_tansum.pdf |
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