Wage Differentials in Cameroon: A Gendered Analysis

Francis Menjo Baye, Boniface Ngah Epo and Jean Ndenzako

African Development Review, 2016, vol. 28, issue 1, 75-91

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This study investigates gender wage differentials using pooled 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys. Decomposition of the returns to endowment component reveals that men were overpaid, while women were underpaid on the average and across percentiles. Education, hours worked, agricultural employment and urban residence were contributing in that order in widening the gender wage-gap in terms of endowments, male advantage and female disadvantage. As a policy option, reducing human capital and labour market constraints that provoke the differential pricing of endowments held by men and women, and the differential access to endowments between them should be considered.

Date: 2016
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