Ebenezer Lemven Wirba
Biographic Data
| ID | 5885994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ebenezer Lemven Wirba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ebenezer Lemven |
| FAMILY NAME | Wirba |
| SIGNATURE | WIRBA E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Namibia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6043-0027 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A three-component decomposition of food poverty dynamics
Impact of minimum wage violation on labor supply in Cameroon
The issue of minimum wage violation and labor supply is a major concern in many countries, including Cameroon. This paper investigates the dynamics of minimum wage violation and its effects on the labor supply using the 2005 and 2010 Cameroonian labor force surveys. Specifically, it assesses the incidence, depth and severity of minimum wage violation in the Cameroon labor market and evaluates the effects of minimum wage violation on labor supply …
Exposure to decentralization and income inequality
The cost of keeping‐up with the Joneses
This paper examines the implications of keeping‐up with the Joneses for household food spending using a nationally representative data for Cameroon. Specifically, it employs the heteroskedasticity‐based identification strategy to address the endogeneity of relative deprivation and the recentred influence function (RIF) regression to account for heterogeneity in the effect of relative deprivation across percentiles. Mean regression results show th…
Cameroon’s Informal Labor Market
Cameroon’s informal labour market largely harbours female workers, engaged mainly in low-productivity and low-paying jobs. We investigate the sticky-floor - a wider earnings-gap at the top end of the earnings-distribution and glass-ceiling phenomena - a wider earnings-gap at the bottom in the informal labour market as a whole and across its segments. We use the 2010 Cameroon labour market survey and a framework that enables us to account for sele…
Gender disparities in Ugandan urban labor market
After decades of the fight against gender discrimination in Sub-Saharan Africa in general and in Uganda in particular, gender disparities in labor markets persist. This paper provides a new empirical evidence of the gender wage gap in the Uganda labor market. Results show that men continue to enjoy a wage premium over women at the mean and across the wage distribution. Findings further indicate that the gender wage gap is wider at the lower tail …
Gender disparities in Ugandan urban labor market
After decades of the fight against gender discrimination in Sub-Saharan Africa in general and in Uganda in particular, gender disparities in labor markets persist. This paper provides a new empirical evidence of the gender wage gap in the Uganda labor market. Results show that men continue to enjoy a wage premium over women at the mean and across the wage distribution. Findings further indicate that the gender wage gap is wider at the lower tail …
Gender disparities in Ugandan urban labor market
After decades of the fight against gender discrimination in Sub-Saharan Africa in general and in Uganda in particular, gender disparities in labor markets persist. This paper provides a new empirical evidence of the gender wage gap in the Uganda labor market. Results show that men continue to enjoy a wage premium over women at the mean and across the wage distribution. Findings further indicate that the gender wage gap is wider at the lower tail …
Cameroon’s Informal Labor Market
Cameroon’s informal labour market largely harbours female workers, engaged mainly in low-productivity and low-paying jobs. We investigate the sticky-floor - a wider earnings-gap at the top end of the earnings-distribution and glass-ceiling phenomena - a wider earnings-gap at the bottom in the informal labour market as a whole and across its segments. We use the 2010 Cameroon labour market survey and a framework that enables us to account for sele…
The cost of keeping‐up with the Joneses
This paper examines the implications of keeping‐up with the Joneses for household food spending using a nationally representative data for Cameroon. Specifically, it employs the heteroskedasticity‐based identification strategy to address the endogeneity of relative deprivation and the recentred influence function (RIF) regression to account for heterogeneity in the effect of relative deprivation across percentiles. Mean regression results show th…
A three-component decomposition of food poverty dynamics
Impact of minimum wage violation on labor supply in Cameroon
The issue of minimum wage violation and labor supply is a major concern in many countries, including Cameroon. This paper investigates the dynamics of minimum wage violation and its effects on the labor supply using the 2005 and 2010 Cameroonian labor force surveys. Specifically, it assesses the incidence, depth and severity of minimum wage violation in the Cameroon labor market and evaluates the effects of minimum wage violation on labor supply …
Exposure to decentralization and income inequality
Economics (5 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Wage (3 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (2 works) · Econometrics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (2 works)