Analysis of gender wage gap and the Nigerian labour market: a new empirical evidence

What is it about?

This study has investigated gender wage gap in Nigeria by extending the focus of literature in three ways. First, we applied an extension of Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition that relies on the re-centered influence function (RIF) regressions to analyse gender wage gap at all points along the wage distribution. Second, we used sample selection bias to account for non-randomness of participation in wage employment. And third, we applied similar analysis to two waves of household surveys (in 2003/2004 and 2018/2019) in order to understand the dynamics or polarization of the labour market in Nigeria in terms of gender wage gap over time. Above all, the results unambiguously show that there is significant gender wage gap in Nigeria at all points along the wage distribution such that for the two surveys used and after nearly two decades, men still earn higher than women.

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