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Distributional changes in the gender wage gap in the post-apartheid South African labour market

Mosomi, Jacqueline - 2019

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Scrutinizing the sticky floor/glass ceiling phenomena in the informal labour market in Cameroon : an unconditional quantile regression analysis

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Cameroon's informal labour market largely harbours female workers, engaged mainly in low-productivity and low-paying jobs. We investigate the sticky floor and glass ceiling phenomena in the informal labour market as a whole and across its segments. We use the 2010 Cameroon labour market survey,...

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Fiscal policy, labour market, and inequality : diagnosing South Africa's anomalies in the shadow of racial discrimination

D'Agostino, Giorgio; Giuli, Francesco; Lorusso, Marco; … - 2020

Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the … linkages between persistent effects of discrimination in the labour market and the efficacy of redistributive fiscal policy in …

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Subjective returns to education : rational expectations of disadvantaged groups in India

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returns for different levels of education in an environment that includes labour market discrimination. We are particularly …

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Gender inequality in employment in Mozambique

Gradín, Carlos; Tarp, Finn - 2017

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has widened over time and we identify two factors strongly...

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Do gender wage differences within households influence women's empowerment and welfare? : evidence from Ghana

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Using household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The structural parameters of the post-double selection...

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Do labour market conditions affect the extent of gender discrimination?

Arceo, Eva; Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M. - 2016

discrimination. In theory, the effect of the unemployment rate on discrimination is ambiguous. Using data from over 300,000 online … discrimination. In this paper we aim at analysing the effect of local labour market conditions on a firm's decision to discriminate …. We use a direct measure of discrimination using online job advertisements which use ascriptive characteristics (such as …

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Gender differences in formal wage employment in urban Tanzania

Opoku, Kwadwo; Mugizi, Francisco M. P.; Boahen, Emmanuel Adu - 2021

wage employment probability differential suggests that the possibility of gender discrimination against women in urban …

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How competitiveness may cause a gender wage gap : experimental evidence

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Who goes on disability when times are tough? : the role of work norms among immigrants

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