Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/163028 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2017/63
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
We study the association between the gender of the highest-ranking manager (the CEO) and gender differences in employees' outcomes using detailed linked employer-employee data from the formal sector in Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, and Senegal. Our empirical strategy relies on the inclusion of firm fixed effects and workers' characteristics. Our results point toward a negative correlation between female CEO and the relative wages and job satisfaction of female employees. However, female employees working under a female CEO who owns the firm are not paid less than their male colleagues.
Subjects: 
female managers
gender gaps
sub-Saharan Africa
JEL: 
J16
J31
M50
J28
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-287-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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