Electronic Wage Payments for Salaried Workers: What Have We Learned? Paper

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Release Date: December 01, 2020

Electronic Wage Payments for Salaried Workers: What Have We Learned? Paper

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Behavioral Interventions ,  Worker Protection, Labor Standards, and Workplace-Related Benefits

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Paper that presents results of a randomized controlled trial with 3,136 salaried factory workers in Bangladesh employed at two large garment factories which, at the beginning of the study, paid all wages in cash. The researchers randomly and individually assign workers within the same factory to either continue receiving their wages in cash or receive electronic wage payments through either a bank or mobile account. The researchers follow workers over approximately two years and measure the effect of electronic wage payments on savings, asset accumulation, and the ability to cope with financial shocks. Workers in the control group continued to receive cash wage payments.

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Breza, E., Kanz, M., Klapper, L. (2021). Harvard. Electronic Wage Payments for Salaried Workers: What Have We Learned? Policy Note. Chief Evaluation Office, U.S. Department of Labor.

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This study was part of CEO’s Labor Research and Evaluation Grants, and was produced outside of CEO’s standard research development process.