Gender Income Inequality in Saint Lucia

This paper seeks to evaluate the gender wage gap in St Lucia. It also attempts to highlight any rigidities and peculiarities within the country's labour market. The study utilises Blinder-Oaxaca's decomposition and data from the 2016 Saint Lucian Survey of Living Conditions Household Budgetary Survey to estimate the gender wage gap. The results suggest that men earn significantly more than equally qualified women, and that the gender gap in St Lucia cannot be sufficiently explained by differences in the characteristics of workers. Also, self-selection into the labour force increases the gender gap significantly