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Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
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Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262237
Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a number of studies have documented and some attempted to explain this stylized fact, the issue...
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While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which...
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While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265549
thus acquire a premium over time. Using a rich employer-employee matched data set for Ghana manufacturing we show that the …
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explanation for the increase in relative wages of skilled workers in Ghana. Estimates of a skilled worker relative demand equation … be indeed consistent with skill-biased technological change in Ghana. …
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. To do such we employ a simple test of employer learning on Ghana manufacturing data. We find no evidence of educational …
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While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from multinationals this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. The innovation of this paper is to investigate whether spillovers occur via worker mobility. We use data...
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provide an explanation for the increase in relative wages of skilled workers in Ghana. Estimates of a skilled worker relative … machinery is found to be indeed consistent with skill-biased technological change in Ghana. …
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