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Distributional changes in the gender wage gap in the post-apartheid South African labour market
Mosomi, Jacqueline - 2019
discrimination. …
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Scrutinizing the sticky floor/glass ceiling phenomena in the informal labour market in Cameroon : an unconditional quantile regression analysis
Wirba, Ebenezer Lemven; Akem, Fiennasah Annif’; Baye, … - 2021
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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Subjective returns to education : rational expectations of disadvantaged groups in India
Balasubramanian, Pooja - 2020
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
Danquah, Michael; Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Boakye, Ernest Owusu - 2021
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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How competitiveness may cause a gender wage gap : experimental evidence
Heinz, Matthias; Normann, Hans-Theo; Rau, Holger A. - In: European economic review : EER 90 (2016), pp. 336-349
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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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Immigration and the gender wage gap
Edo, Anthony; Toubal, Farid - In: European economic review : EER 92 (2017), pp. 196-214
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Female leaders and gender gaps within the firm : evidence from three sub-Saharan African countries
La Mattina, Giulia; Picone, Gabriel A.; Ahoure, Alban; … - 2017
We study the association between the gender of the highest-ranking manager (the CEO) and gender differences in employees' outcomes using detailed linked employer-employee data from the formal sector in Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, and Senegal. Our empirical strategy relies on the inclusion of firm...
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