In this article a dual model of the sectoral balance between agriculture and industry in sub-Saharan Africa is developed and compared to the existing literature. Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa discriminated against agriculture to promote industry after independence. The domestic terms of...

This paper estimates the causal effect of the wage on the recruitment rate at the establishment level. During the 1990s, the wage setting for certified teachers in Norway was completely centralized, with a wage premium of about 10 percent at schools with severe recruitment problems in the past...