skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of education. This paper examines these issues for Ghana, by …

This paper investigates whether education is used as a signaling device for worker productivity in developing countries …. To do such we employ a simple test of employer learning on Ghana manufacturing data. We find no evidence of educational …

measures of workplace performance (financial performance, labour productivity and product or service quality) and employee …

productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential … productivity-wage gaps. They find that occupations play distinct roles for remuneration and productivity: while the estimations … indicate a significant upward-sloping occupational wage-profile, the hypothesis of a flat productivity-profile cannot be …

lower marginal product of labour, higher marginal product of capital and lower overall productivity pointing towards …

foreign direct investment on the labour productivity of domestic firms. A key policy change during this time period was the … foreign firm ownership and BEE on labour productivity. Regardless of the empirical specification we find no spill over effects … and no evidence that a greater degree of BEE compliance by foreign firms influences labour productivity. …

the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms’ export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …’s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms’ export activities …