context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …

Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in …

Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … significant positive impacts on productivity as measured by value-added per worker, especially for firms with female principal … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …

This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement …

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity. …

between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …