This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement … as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … – the last labor force survey available – indicate that minimum wages, which, in principle, apply to all salaried employees …

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 … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …

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 …

lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …

The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate … potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this …'s set of productive traits that affect wages. Using two stage estimations we examine the relationship between adult sexual …

part of the workers in the sector, the unions are worried about low wages and poor working conditions in the sector. This … workers received between 16 and 18 percent lower wages in 2008. This development appears partly to be explained by a lower …