Informality and Gender Gaps Going Hand in Hand

Malta, Vivian; Kolovich, Lisa; Martinez, Angelica; Tavares, Marina Mendes

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“…In Sub-Saharan Africa, women are seen to dominate the informal sector when compared to men, mainly because of lower education level, legal barriers, social norms and demographic characteristics (Malta et al, 2019). Magidimisha & Gordon (2015) also reported that female informal enterprise owners in Southern Africa have different attributes from their male counterparts, while women in East Africa are disproportionately self-employed in informal enterprises, which increases their vulnerability and reduces their ability to access nances and services (Golla, 2017).…”

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“…Ironically, unlike other regions, women dominate the informal economy in Africa with the harsh economic situation in the sector compared to the formal economy. Again, women experience another great discrimination and are pushed into the most vulnerable sector in Africa (UNU, 2013;Malta et al, 2019), with approximately 89.7 percent of employed women in Africa being in informal employment excluding agriculture and 92.3 percent when agriculture is included (ILO, 2018). Men and women in the informal sector face risks of unstable earnings and no access to health insurance.…”

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Informal Economy and Gender Inequality,

Joseph¹,

Nevo²,

Nwolisa³

2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the global economy has exposed not just the dominant nature of informal sector in Africa economy but also the vulnerability of the women in the continent. Thus, this study investigates the relationship between gender inequality and growth of the informal sector in Africa. Using Generalised Least Square Approach, it was discovered that gender inequality indices such as equality between male and female in getting job in the formal economy under same or similar circumstances have significant impact in the growth of the informal economy in the continent. The study concludes that if adequate effort is not made to address the gender inequality in the continent especially in formal employment that have forced many females to informal sector employment, the objective of achieving inclusive growth and development in the continent might not be realistic. The study therefore recommends that the UN and other international organisations should compensate the African women by giving the women at least 60 percent chance in all their employment as a way of increasing the economic and political power of the women in the continent.

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Informal Economy and Gender Inequality,

Joseph¹,

Nevo²,

Nwolisa³

2020

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“…The question of gender disparities in the labor market is still topical and, particularly so for the informal economy, which is expanding as economies face varieties of crises (Castellano & Rocca, 2019; ILO, 2018; Malta et al., 2019). This situation appears to be more critical in developing countries where institutional and market failures are engendering acute unemployment, underemployment, corruption, disparities, and poverty.…”

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Earnings gap between men and women in the informal labor market in Cameroon

Wirba

Akem

Baye

2021

Review Development Economics

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This paper investigates the extent of gender earnings gap among informal labor market workers in Cameroon. We have used the 2010 employment and informal sector survey, the Heckman two‐step bivariate selection model, and the Neuman–Oaxaca–Ransom decomposition framework to address these concerns. We find that, compared to men, women are more likely to make the joint decision of participating in the labor market and choosing informal work. Findings also reveal that among informal workers, male workers have an earnings premium over their female counterparts. Returns to informal labor market experience are solidly consistent in narrowing the gender earnings gap. Among the self‐employed workers, male workers also enjoy an earnings premium. However, when the inverse Mills ratio is decomposed, the overall and the self‐employed gender discrimination virtually disappears. Meanwhile, female wage earners enjoy a wage premium and have an unambiguous education‐based advantage over their male counterparts. The implications of these findings support the wisdom that promoting the human capital development of the girl child would play a vital role in alleviating gender‐based differentials by eroding sociocultural conventions and advancing women's agency.

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“…On informality and gender gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa, seeMalta, Kolovich, Martinez and Tavares (2019).©International Monetary Fund. Not for Redistribution…”

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Immigration and Employment: Substitute Versus Complementary Labor in Selected African Countries

Viseth¹

2020

IMF Working Papers

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This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa to examine immigration's impact in the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-Saharan Africa. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii) employment allocation between informal and formal sectors, and (iii) the type of employment within each sector. The direction of the impact depends on the degree of complementarity between immigrants and native workers' skills. Immigration is found to be productivity-enhancing in the short to near term in countries where, the degree of complementarity between immigrants and native workers' skill sets is the highest.

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Informality and Gender Gaps Going Hand in Hand

Cited by 17 publications

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Informal Economy and Gender Inequality,

Informal Economy and Gender Inequality,

Earnings gap between men and women in the informal labor market in Cameroon

Immigration and Employment: Substitute Versus Complementary Labor in Selected African Countries

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