Women's empowerment, self-employment and incomes inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jean Francky Landry Ngono ()
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Jean Francky Landry Ngono: University of Ngaoundere

Economics Bulletin, 2021, vol. 41, issue 3, 1907-1918

Abstract: Women empowerment, women self-employment and income inequalities are now challenges that characterize Sub-Saharan Africa. This is why in this study we evaluate the effect of women's empowerment on income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa between 1981 and 2017. In particular, we analyze the interactions between women empowerment and women self-employment. The use of the Generalized Method of Moments gives the following main results: (i) Women's empowerment alone is not enough to reduce income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa. (ii) For an effective fight against income inequalities, women's empowerment must be accompanied by an increase in women's self-employment. (iii) Increase in women's informal employment tends to exacerbate income inequalities like unemployment.

Keywords: Income inequality; informal sector; self-employment; women's empowerment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 O2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-09-17
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