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This paper identifies and estimates the impact of firm entry and exit on plant-level productivity in Ethiopia as part of a selection mechanism that might be driving aggregate productivity growth in cities. Specifically, the paper investigates how fir
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https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-8291
https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-8291
Autor:
Shirley Johnson-Lans, Patricia Jones
Publikováno v:
Wage Inequality in Africa ISBN: 9783319515649
This chapter addresses two questions related to the post-apartheid surge of multinational activity in South Africa. Was the influx of foreign investment associated with a widening or reducing of the wage gap between black and white workers? And secon
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51565-6_2
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51565-6_2
Publikováno v:
Wage Inequality in Africa ISBN: 9783319515649
This chapter examines the size and sources of the urban wage premium in three African countries—Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda—using panel data on workers for the period 2009–2013. We ask three basic questions. First, is there any evidence that
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51565-6_3
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51565-6_3
This paper considers three aspects of the job insecurity facing British men in the last two decades. The probability of becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed wi
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https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a7c1deca-0f77-420f-9e57-8a182c7b9aea
Autor:
Patricia Jones
Publikováno v:
Journal of Development Economics. 64:57-79
This paper presents a new method for examining the productive nature of education. It outlines an econometric model which simultaneously estimates an earnings function and a production function for workers and the firms where they are employed. This
Autor:
Patricia Jones
Publikováno v:
Journal of African Economies. 7:62-90
This paper explores the potential role of social learning in the process of skill formation. It develops a model in which parents form expectations about the future returns to schooling by observing the investment behavior of other families in their