Gender Wage and Productivity Gaps in the Manufacturing Industry. The Case of Ghana

Abegaz, Melaku; Nene, Gibson

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“…The SMEs that are into manufacturing are in sectors ranging from food processing, textiles, and garments, wood products and furniture, metal products and machinery to detergents (Abegaz & Nene, 2018).…”

Section: Ghanaian Contextmentioning

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Female Entrepreneurship and Ghana’s Informal Economy: Prospects and Challenges

2023

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This study found that female entrepreneurs dominate the informal business sector, but not the manufacturing sector. Female businesses in the manufacturing sector remained largely at the micro level and failed to transition into the formal sector. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design to purposively sample and interview female entrepreneurs at a Trade Fair organised by the SNV/EU Green Project in the Takoradi Metropolis (from 4th to 10th October 2022) for its supported female entrepreneurs in the Western of Region of Ghana. The study interviewed a total of forty-two respondents (8 of whom were male). The male respondents opted to respond to the same questionnaire as the females, in solidarity with the female SMEs. The study identified barriers to female entrepreneurs in the manufacturing sector including the absence of start-up capital, the absence of cheap long-term credit, challenges with business and product registration, the absence of capacity development in entrepreneurship and business development and the lack of general planned support by the government. The study proposes policy recommendations to include start-up support for female manufacturers; entrepreneurship and business development support; purchase of the products of female manufacturers by state agencies as a matter of policy; and the promotion of exposure trips in-country and abroad for female manufacturers to network with others and to learn of new ways to effectively conduct their operations.

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Section: Ghanaian Contextmentioning

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Female Entrepreneurship and Ghana’s Informal Economy: Prospects and Challenges

2023

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“…Previous studies on wage inequalities in Ghana have focused on understanding the effects of trade openness and skilled-bias technological change on wages (Görg et al 2001), the gender-wage gap in the manufacturing sector (Abegaz and Nene 2018), and on examining genderwage gaps using different selection models -correcting for double selection bias (Boahen and Opoku 2021). However, only one study has investigated the private-public wage gap in Ghana using the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method (Younger and Osei-Assibey 2017).…”

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Are public sector workers in Ghana overpaid? Evidence from a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis.

Kaba

2023

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This paper employs the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method to estimate the private-public sector wage gap, investigating the public sector wage premium using an analytical sample of 876 wage workers. These workers were drawn from a nationally representative household dataset - the seventh round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 7) data. The results suggest that private sector workers, including those in the informal sector, earn lower wages than their counterparts possessing the same level of human capital in the public sector. However, the wage gap becomes statistically insignificant when observed among formal private sector workers and formal public sector wage workers. Returns to education in the public sector surpass those in the private sector, particularly for the secondary and tertiary graduates. These findings contribute to the ongoing debate about private-public wage differentials by introducing context-specific insights from Ghana, particularly when comparing the wages of formal private and public workers. Although the results challenge the common belief that private sector workers receive significantly less premium than public sector workers, this paper underscores the importance of formalizing the predominantly informal private sector as a policy measure to reduce the private-public wage gap.

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Gender Wage and Employment Gaps in the Sub-Saharan Africa Economic Sectors

Abegaz

Nene

2022

The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors

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Gender Wage and Productivity Gaps in the Manufacturing Industry. The Case of Ghana

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Female Entrepreneurship and Ghana’s Informal Economy: Prospects and Challenges

Female Entrepreneurship and Ghana’s Informal Economy: Prospects and Challenges

Are public sector workers in Ghana overpaid? Evidence from a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis.

Gender Wage and Employment Gaps in the Sub-Saharan Africa Economic Sectors

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