The gender wage gap in three African countries

Simon Appleton, John Hoddinott and Pramila Krishnan

No 1996-07, CSAE Working Paper Series from Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Abstract: This paper extends the Oaxaca-Ransom (1994) method for decomposing wage gaps to account for sectoral choice by men and women. We apply this method to data from three African countries. We find that differences between actual and gender-neutral returns accounts for much of the gender wage gap in Ethiopia and Uganda, rather less in Cote d'Ivoire. In all three countries, the wage gap is narrowed because women are over-represented in the higher-paying public sector. This result would not have been obtained had we used conventional decomposition techniques.

Keywords: Gender; labour; Africa; wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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Published in Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming 1998

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