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Do gender wage differences within households influence women's empowerment and welfare?: Evidence from GhanaUsing household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning techniques – IV LASSO – that allows for the treatment of unconfoundedness in the selection of observables and unobservabl...
Wage gap Households Women's empowermentWorking Paper
Do gender wage differences within households influence women’s empowerment and welfare?: Evidence from GhanaUsing 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...
Wage gap Households Women's empowermentWorking Paper
Scrutinizing the sticky floor/glass ceiling phenomena in the informal labour market in Cameroon: An unconditional quantile regression analysisCameroon’s informal labour market largely harbours female workers, engaged mainly in low-productivity and low-paying jobs...
Gender Earnings inequality Sticky floorWorking Paper
Gender wage gaps in Ghana: A comparison across different selection modelsThe wage of an individual is observed only when he/she is employed. However, getting employment requires two decisions...
Gender Ghana Labour marketSeminar
Serena Merrino on wage inequality under inflation-targeting in South Africa
Working Paper
Globalization and gender inequality: Evidence from South AfricaInequality has been rising in most countries for several decades, with negative consequences for social cohesion and economic growth. Substantial gender wage gaps contribute significantly to overall wage inequality...
Wage gap International trade Linked employer-employee dataWorking Paper
The impact of the Employment Equity Act on female inter-industry labour mobility and the gender wage gap in South AfricaThe Employment Equity Act No. 55 of 1998 was introduced by the South African government to address the legacy of apartheid and ensure equitable representation of black people and women in the South African labour market...
Employment Equity Act Wage gap Industry networksBlog
How a data revolution in South Africa can help address gender inequalityIn 2016, we joined a project in South Africa working to make tax data available for research purposes...
Administrative data Employment GenderResearch Brief
The gender wage gap in post-apartheid South AfricaThe World Bank reports that the world loses US$160 trillion in human capital wealth due to gender wage inequality every year. Inequality is not just an issue of fairness...
Labour force participation Gender gap Wage gapWorking Paper
Gender and the South African labour market: Policy relevant research possibilities using South African tax dataThis paper has three primary objectives...
Administrative data Employment GenderReport
Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises 2018 Qualitative StudyThe purpose of this report is to give a nuanced picture of the SME business environment in Myanmar as a complement to the 2017 MSME quantitative survey conducted within the project ‘ Towards Inclusive Development in Myanmar ’...
SMEs Manufacturing Informal sectorWorking Paper
Distributional changes in the gender wage gap in the post-apartheid South African labour marketThis paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993–2015 Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series data set. The changes in the gap are heterogeneous across the wage distribution...
Labour force participation Gender gap Wage gap