This paper studies the contributions of sector-specific and between-sector employment effects in accounting for aggregate poverty changes in Cameroon. We observed that the decrease in poverty among tertiary and secondary sector workers was considerably accounted for by the within-sector effects,...

This study reviews the theoretical framework of sectoral decomposition and source decomposition. It isolates the sector-specific and the between-sector effects in accounting for aggregate poverty change in Cameroon using an exact decomposition and accounts for changes in household labour income...