Discrimination in a search and matching model with self-employment
Abstract In many urban African labour markets, women outnumber men in self-employment, even though gender earnings gaps are larger for the self-employed than the wage-employed. In this paper, we suggest an explanation for this pattern using a search and matching model that allows for individual hete...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2019-03-01
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| Series: | IZA Journal of Development and Migration |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40176-019-0140-3 |