This paper applies the Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) approach to investigate disparities in endowments and returns to these endowments between male and female headed households, and to construct a discrimination index. This approach permits us to obtain appropriate parameter estimates of income generating functions, and to use them to derive the partial effects of …
The paper focuses on how women confront gender stereotyping in fishing and how social policies like affirmative action and employment equity impact on women in a democratising South Africa. It also highlights ways that women in fish processing innovate and develop strategies to cope with gender-related workplace problems in the industry. Asset Type: Publications Collection: …
In this paper, the authors use data from the Chinese Household Income Projects (2002 and 2007) to analyse the earnings disparity between genders and a female inner group. The unconditional quantile regression finds that the negative effects on earnings of marriage and taking care of children has significantly decreased since 2002, especially for women. But …
