Investigating the gender wage gap in the Nigerian labour market: A distributional approach
Investigates the gender wage gap in Nigeria by extending the focus of the existing literature.
Abstract
This study investigates the gender wage gap in Nigeria by extending the focus of the existing literature in two ways. First, it applies an extension of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition that relies on re-centred influence function (RIF) regressions to analyse the gender wage gap at all points along the wage distribution. Second, it investigates changes in the gender wage gap between 2003 to 2004 and 2018 to 2019. The results unambiguously show that there is a significant gender wage gap in favour of men in Nigeria. This gap is statistically significant at all points of the wage distribution. Over time, it finds that most of the wage difference is significantly accounted for by the wage structure effect, while the composition effect accounted for the wage gap at the lower end of the wage distribution during 2018 to 2019.
This research is part of the Capacity for Economic Research and Policy making in Africa (CERPA) programme.
Citation
Nwosu EO and Orji A. ‘Investigating the gender wage gap in the Nigerian labour market: A distributional approach’ Research Paper 553, 2024
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