Gender analysis of labour force outcomes: Evidence from Cameroon

ABSTRACT

The present study contributes to the extant literature by assessing how financial and human developments moderate the incidence of vulnerable female employment on female labour force participation in Cameroon for the period 1987 to 2020 using the generalised least squares (GLS) estimation approach. It is apparent from the findings that human development in the perspective of the human development index (HDI) and broad money supply are necessary and sufficient conditions to moderate vulnerable female employment for female labour force participation. Accordingly, HDI thresholds of between 0.591 and 0.634 are needed to reverse the negative incidence of female vulnerable employment on female labour force participation. Furthermore, a threshold of 30.294 (% of GDP) of broad money supply is also needed to reverse the negative incidence of vulnerable female employment on female labour force participation. Other implications for policy are discussed.

KEYWORDS:

• Gender; labour force; Cameroon; sustainable development

JEL CLASSIFICATION:

• G20
• I10
• I32
• O40
• O55

Acknowledgement

The authors are indebted to the editors and reviewers for constructive comments.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 This is extension of a working paper in the public domain. Kouam et al. (2022). Link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4243844

2 UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2019).

3 UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2019).

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Funding

This work was supported by Atlas Network [grant number G-0066-21Q3-1].