gender, age, marital status or even physique) to describe their ideal candidates, to which we will refer as explicit …

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 …. However, after accounting for selection into labour force participation, the existing gender bias is narrowed for women with …

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 …

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 …

gender. While some women (mostly black and Coloured) overwhelmingly fill low-paying jobs, others (mostly white and Indian … gender segregation and stratification, with women and men entering occupations previously dominated by the other gender … process. Distinct worker characteristics by gender, such as education, location, or age, cannot explain existing segregation …

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 …

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 …Inequality has been rising in most countries for several decades, with negative consequences for social cohesion and …

We study the association between the gender of the highest-ranking manager (the CEO) and gender differences in …

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 …

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 …