Wage Gaps and Job Sorting in African Manufacturing
| Autor: | Måns Söderbom, Marcel Fafchamps, Najy Benhassine |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Income Distribution Africa gender wage gap job selection manufacturing return to education General I200 [Education and Research Institutions] Human Development media_common.quotation_subject Labor Productivity J240 Wage Industrialization Development Human capital Occupational Choice jel:J24 Income distribution Manufacturing and Service Industries Human development (biology) Economics media_common Human Resources [Economic Development] Migration O150 Human Capital Skills Low wage Sorting Wage Differentials J310 Manufacturing: General L600 [Industry Studies] Choice of Technology O140 jel:J31 Industrialisation Wage Level and Structure Work (electrical) Demographic economics jel:O14 |
| Popis: | Using matched employer--employee data from eleven African countries, we investigate if there is job sorting in African labour markets. We find that much of the wage gap associated with education is driven by selection across occupations and firms. This is consistent with educated workers being more effective at complex tasks such as labour management. In all countries, the education wage gap widens rapidly at high levels of education. Most of the education wage gap at low levels of education can be explained by selection across occupations. We also find that the education wage gap tends to be higher for women, except in Morocco where many poorly educated women work in the garment sector. A large share of the gender wage gap is explained by selection into low wage occupations and firms. Copyright 2009 The author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org, Oxford University Press. |
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