Bridging the gender gap : identifying what is holding self-employed women back in Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Republic of Congo (English)

Quantile decomposition methods are used to study the determinants of the gender gap in self-employment earnings across the earnings distribution of four Sub-Saharan countries: the Republic of Congo, Ghana, Rwanda, and Tanzania. Techniques developed by Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux are used to decompose the gap into a compositional effect (the part of the earnings gap that can be explained by observable factors) and a structural effect (the part of the...

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Nix,Emily E.;

Gamberoni,Elisa;

Heath,Rachel;
Document Date
2015/08/28
Document Type
Journal Article
Report Number
129190
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Africa,
Region
Africa,
Disclosure Date
2018/08/03
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Bridging the gender gap : identifying what is holding self-employed women back in Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Republic of Congo
Keywords
Gender Gap

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Nix,Emily E.; Gamberoni,Elisa; Heath,Rachel.

Bridging the gender gap : identifying what is holding self-employed women back in Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Republic of Congo (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/499701533282190460

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