In this paper I extend Lee`s two-stage structural probit analysis in order to test and measure the existence and scope of a public sector job queue in Ethiopia. Recent urban household survey data reject the absence of job rationing in favour of an implicit queue of most private sector workers...

In this paper, I analyse production and labour market data from a random sample of manufacturing firms in Ethiopia in order to test for skill formation and job matching effects in wage growth. Based on estimated labor market experience and job seniority profiles of relative marginal productivity...

April 1999 - Estimated age and job seniority profiles of wages and marginal productivity in Ethiopia suggest that both skill formation and job matching significantly affect growth of wages and productivity over time. However, job matching is by far the more important of the two sources of growth...