Ecarts de salaire entre hommes et femmes au Cameroun: Discrimination ou Capital humain ? Une approche par sous groupes

Gender wage gap: Discrimination or Human Capital? A subgroup approach

Eric Martial Etoundi Atenga, Célestin Chameni Nembua and Henri Joel Meva Avoulou

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Abstract: The working population is becoming more and more feminized from 2000 to 2008 in Cameroon. Women receive on average a salary lower than that of the men and the sex remains a significant determiner of the professional position in Cameroon. From Oaxaca-Blinder(1973)decomposition, this work suggests studying gender wage gap composition in private and para public sectors by using subgroup approach. Results show that wage gap is estimated to 8.8% in favor of men. This gap is higher for employees aged more than 70 years. Women of this class are more discriminated. Unexplained part is 70%.On the other hand,gap and unexplained part is more and more high for highest wages.

Keywords: wage gap decomposition; Human capital; discrimination; quantile regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-12, Revised 2014-08
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