Urban Areas Of Kenya Research Articles

The Urban Gender Wage Gap in an African Country: Findings from Kenya

ABSTRACT This paper estimates the gender earnings gap for workers in the urban areas of Kenya, and decomposes the gap into the portions due to gender differences in productivity-enhancing attributes and unexplained residuals (discrimination). No previous study has performed the latter exercise for workers in the urban areas of Kenya. The results show that a considerable gender earnings gap exists in urban areas, and that the largest part of the gap may be attributed to discrimination by urban employers.

Population Movements to the Main Urban Areas of Kenya

Movements of population though not as yet well documented in East Africa form a theme of great interest to the student of population geography in the area. In the first place, they provide essential clues to the interpretation of the current ethnic and linguistic complexities and to the early response of the population to geographical realities of the area. But research into modern migrations is a vital background to the understanding of the problems facing the social and economic planners in the area. This paper is concerned with an aspect of population dynamics in Kenya and is based on the i962 population census.