Discriminatory Environment, Firms' Discriminatory Behavior, and Women's Employment in the Democratic Republic of Congo
This paper contributes to better understanding firms' discriminatory behavior in the presence of gender-based legal discrimination and its linkages with labor market outcomes for women in a developing country setting. Using data collected thro...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/138561588101536919/Discriminatory-Environment-Firms-Discriminatory-Behavior-and-Womens-Employment-in-the-Democratic-Republic-of-Congo http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33668 |
| Summary: | This paper contributes to better
understanding firms' discriminatory behavior in the
presence of gender-based legal discrimination and its
linkages with labor market outcomes for women in a
developing country setting. Using data collected through the
World Bank Enterprise Surveys in the Democratic Republic of
Congo, the paper documents the existence of nonnegligible
employer discrimination and limitations in women's
autonomy in the presence of a discriminatory environment.
Interestingly, these are more pervasive outside the capital
city, Kinshasa, which suggests that cultural norms or
differences in regulation enforcement may be at play. The
paper also finds that firms' discriminatory behavior
harms women's labor market outcomes, in their
representation among the upper echelons of management and
participation in the overall workforce. The negative
relationship between restrictions from discriminatory
behaviors and female employment is particularly strong in
the manufacturing sector. |
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