Gender-based market constraints to informal fish retailing: Evidence from analysis of variance and linear regression.

ABSTRACT: Over the last decade, Egypt's aquaculture sector has expanded rapidly, which has contributed substantially to per capita fish supply, and the growth of domestic fish markets and employment across the aquaculture value chain. Despite the growing importance of aquaculture sector in Egyptian labour force, only a few studies have explored the livelihoods of Egypt's women and men fish retailers. Even fewer studies have examined gender-based market constraints experienced by these informal fish retailers. This study uses sex-disaggregated data collected in 2013 in three governorates of Lower Egypt to examine the economic and social constraints to scale of enterprises between women (n = 162) and men informal fish retailers (n = 183). Specifically, we employ linear regression method to determine t

SUBMITTER: Murphy S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7108715 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature