Women's urban labour market status in developing countries: How well do they fare in Khartoum, Sudan?
研究了苏丹喀土穆女性在正规部门劳动力市场的地位，发现职业隔离而非薪酬歧视是工资差异的主要原因，对制定平等薪酬法律有启示。
Abstract This article examines the insertion of women in the formal sector labour market in urban Khartoum, Sudan, in order to explain their inferior employment status in one particular developing country environment. A number of hypotheses are tested drawing upon recent labour market theoretical developments and econometric techniques from the literature which have had limited previous applications in Third World settings, particularly in Africa. Our findings indicate that occupational segregation, rather than pay discrimination, is primarily to blame for observed wage differentials suggesting that well‐intentioned equal pay laws will do little to reduce the earnings gap.