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The Job Ladder: Transforming informal work and livelihoods in developing countries

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UNU-WIDER's LDC5 Conference Exhibition

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Capacity development in action: UNU-WIDER Winter School

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Seminar

Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso on gender gap and firm performance in developing countries

Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 10 October 2019. Abstract – Gender gap and firm performance in developing countries This paper uses firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) to...

10 October 2019

UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland

Past event

Journal Article

Female leaders and gender gaps within the firm: Evidence from three Sub‐Saharan African countries

Part of Journal Special Issue Female Autonomy and Women’s Welfare

Female managers Gender gap Sub-Saharan Africa

Working Paper

Female leaders and gender gaps within the firm: Evidence from three sub-Saharan African countries

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,...