Jacqueline Agesa
Marshall University
26 Papers
175 Citations
Jacqueline Agesa is an academic researcher from Marshall University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wage & Earnings. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 26 publications. Previous affiliations of Jacqueline Agesa include North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
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Papers
Gender differences in the incidence of rural to urban migration: evidence from Kenya.
TL;DR: The authors examined gender differences in the incidence of rural to urban migration in developing countries, particularly those of Sub-Saharan Africa, and found that the portion of the wage gap that is due to the gain in returns to observable attributes is larger for males, suggesting that males receive larger monetary returns as a result of migration and have greater incentive to migrate to urban areas.
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Competition and Wage Discrimination: The Effects of Interindustry Concentration and Import Penetration*
TL;DR: This paper investigated the impact of foreign and domestic competition on racial wage discrimination in U.S. manufacturing industries from the 1990 Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS) and found little evidence to support their hypothesis.
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Economics Faculty Research at Teaching Institutions: Are Historically Black Colleges Different?
TL;DR: This article examined the difference in research output of economics departments at HBCUs and non-HBCUs that are teaching institutions and examined the causal relationship between economics faculty research and the number of an institution's baccalaureate graduates who earn doctorates in economics.
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Economics Research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities : Rankings and Effects on the Supply of Black Economists*
TL;DR: In this paper, a ranking of the research productivity of economics departments at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) is presented, based on two measures of research productivity: the first measure captures research productivity exclusively in the discipline of economics and the second measure captures output across a spectrum of disciplines, including economics.
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Sources of the Persistent Gender Wage Gap along the Unconditional Earnings Distribution: Findings from Kenya
TL;DR: This paper found that while gender differences in characteristics and the return to characteristics widen the gender wage gap at the lower end of the wage distributions, gender differences between the two types of variables widen it at the upper end.
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