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Wage Differentials in Cameroon: A Gendered Analysis

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  • Francis Menjo Baye
  • Boniface Ngah Epo
  • Jean Ndenzako

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type="main" xml:lang="en"> 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.

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  • Francis Menjo Baye & Boniface Ngah Epo & Jean Ndenzako, 2016. "Wage Differentials in Cameroon: A Gendered Analysis," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 28(1), pages 75-91, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:afrdev:v:28:y:2016:i:1:p:75-91
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    1. Issofou Njifen & Peter Smith, 2024. "Education-Job Mismatch and Heterogeneity in the Return to Schooling: Evidence from Cameroon," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 15(1), pages 860-887, March.
    2. Elvis D. Achuo & Simplice A. Asongu & Gildas D. Dinga, 2022. "Addressing the Educational Crisis in Cameroon: Policy Syndromes, Arguments, Views, Theory and Agenda," Working Papers of the African Governance and Development Institute. 22/097, African Governance and Development Institute..
    3. Ebenezer Lemven Wirba & Fiennasah Annif’ Akem & Francis Menjo Baye, 2021. "Earnings gap between men and women in the informal labor market in Cameroon," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 25(3), pages 1466-1491, August.
    4. Joseph Mawejje & Ibrahim Mike Okumu, 2018. "Wages and Labour Productivity in African Manufacturing," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 30(4), pages 386-398, December.
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    6. Camarena, Kara Ross, 2022. "Repatriation during conflict: A signaling analysis," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 158(C).
    7. Miamo Wendji, Clovis & Kouhomou, Clemence Zite, 2020. "Les écarts salariaux de genre dans les entreprises au Cameroun [Gender pay gaps in Cameroonian firms]," MPRA Paper 100286, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 10 May 2020.
    8. Toyin Segun Ogunleye, 2017. "Financial Inclusion and the Role of Women in Nigeria," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 29(2), pages 249-258, June.
    9. Ebo Botchway & Kofi Fred Asiedu, 2020. "Ownership type and earnings gap decomposition: Evidence from the Ghanaian labor market," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 32(4), pages 619-631, December.
    10. Ebenezer Lemven Wirba & Fiennasah Annif' Akem & Francis Menjo Baye, 2021. "Scrutinizing the sticky floor/glass ceiling phenomena in the informal labour market in Cameroon: An unconditional quantile regression analysis," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2021-13, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    11. Koami M. Midagbodji & Aklesso Y. G. Egbendewe, 2020. "L'accès des jeunes au marché du travail au Togo et au bénin: Une évidence paramétrique et semi‐paramétrique," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 32(S1), pages 54-67, November.

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