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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2015/08/28
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Article de revue
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129190
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2018/08/03
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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
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Gender Gap