Showing 1 - 10 of 202
influenced by gender, it is appropriate to account for this double selection process. This study uses the latest household survey … in Ghana to estimate gender wage gaps by correcting for this double selection process. We find that the average total … gender wage gap is positive and significant irrespective of the sample selection correction method used. Our results indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423031
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 LASSO estimations show that a reduction in household gender wage gap … significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434240
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 … gender, age, marital status or even physique) to describe their ideal candidates, to which we will refer as explicit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486479
wage employment probability differential suggests that the possibility of gender discrimination against women in urban … probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban … likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545450
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152273
Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. Ecuador … incomes across gender, with around 80 per cent of individuals in the top 10 per cent group remaining in this group from year …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550292
economic growth. Substantial gender wage gaps contribute significantly to overall wage inequality. We look at an often …-overlooked driver of gender inequality: international trade. Trading firms constitute 70 per cent of employment in South African … universe of formal South African manufacturing firms, we show that these firms exhibit greater gender wage gaps than non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256669
We study the association between the gender of the highest-ranking manager (the CEO) and gender differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011627151
We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach shows that the decline over time in occupational gender segregation in the … US has been accompanied by a deeper, longer reduction in gender stratification. We further investigate the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634452
suggestion of anticipated labour market genderbased discrimination among high-skilled workers in Mozambique, as they prepare to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233727