TY  - JOUR
T1  - An Empirical Analysis of Gender Earnings Gap in the Ghanaian Informal Sector Using the 1998/1999 Ghana Living Standards Survey
AU - Addai, Isaac 
JO  - Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences
VL  - 8
IS  - 3
SP  - 152
EP  - 158
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1683-8831
DO  - pjssci.2011.152.158
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=pjssci.2011.152.158
KW  - Gender gap
KW  -in formal sector
KW  -earnings
KW  -living standards survey
KW  -labour market
KW  -discrimination
AB  - This study used the 1998/1999 Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 4), a new nationally, representative survey carried out by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and applied the decomposition to empirically analyse the phenomenon of gender gap in earnings in the informal sector labour market. The findings suggest the existence of discrimination in gender earnings in the Ghanaian informal sector labour market and that females in the Ghanaian informal sector labour market are on average and ceteris paribus more skilful by 36%. However, males having sample average female characteristics earn on average and ceteris paribus 87% more in log monthly wages than their female counterparts.
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