Akaffou

Are women really discriminated against in the Côte d’Ivoire labor market? Gender-based analysis in urban areas highlights this problem at a critical period in the country’s history. To this end, a number of variables that may help to better identify discrimination against women among the unemployed and the employed population are determined using data from job surveys and job offers under the pre-discrimination and market discrimination options. First, the literature review indexes economic theories of human capital and labor market segmentation. Secondly, the indices and econometric models induced are differentiated according to the nature of the data used. Finally, the nature of the factors constraining women’s integration into the labour market shows a predominance of labour market segmentation variables, based on pre-discrimination.