Urban Labor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa by Philippe De Vreyer; François Roubaud

Author:Philippe De Vreyer; François Roubaud
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The World Bank

Sources: Based on Phase 1 of the 1-2-3 surveys of selected cities in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) conducted in 2001/02 by the Observatoire économique et statistique d’Afrique Subsaharienne (AFRISTAT); Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation (DIAL); and national statistics institutes.

Note: Figures are for working individuals 15–65.

The most striking fact about urban labor markets in the WAEMU countries is the gap between mean incomes in the formal and informal sectors, especially for women. The distribution for informal employers lies between the distributions of the formal sector and the informal workers sector. As an example, figure 6.1 displays the density distribution of earnings in Cotonou.6

Figure 6.1 Hourly Wage Densities of Men and Women in Cotonou, by Sector, 2001/02

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