Decomposing Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Seven West African Cities
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Keywords
earnings equations; gender wage gap; ethnic wage gap; West Africa; Equation de gain; écart de salaire; décomposition; genre; Ethnie; Afrique de l'Ouest.;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2009-10-31 (Africa)
- NEP-LAB-2009-10-31 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2009-10-31 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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