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Why Do South Korean Firms Produce so Much More Output Per Worker than Ghanaian Ones?
Baptist, Simon - 2015
productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016333
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Capital-Skill Complimentarity : Evidence from Manufacturing Industries in Ghana
Akay, Gokhan H. - 2010
purpose of this study is to determine whether the capital-skill complementarity framework holds for Ghana manufacturing plants … in industry and aggregate level. We use an unbalanced panel of plant-level data for manufacturing firms in Ghana during … suggest that capital-skill complimentarity holds in aggregate level and wood-furniture sector in Ghana. However, we reject the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149509
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Gender Gaps Across Countries and Skills : Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure
Olivetti, Claudia - 2011
The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120831
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The Economic Consequences of 'Brain Drain' of the Best and Brightest : Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries
Gibson, John - 2010
Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a number of possible benefits, in addition to costs, from skilled emigration, the evidence base on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139051
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Is Climbing Difficult? A Gendered Analysis on the Use of Financial Services in Ghana and South Africa
Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2013
, draws on the FinMark national-level data from Ghana and South Africa. The main observation is that females in South Africa … are more likely to use general financial and investment products than in Ghana. The results also reveal that in Ghana, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073847
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Pledging, Praising and Shaming : Experimental Labour Markets in Ghana
Davies, Elwyn - 2017
research (Davies & Fafchamps, 2017) has shown that managers in Ghana are reluctant to use monetary incentives to motivate … workers. This paper presents the results from a gift-exchange game experiment in Ghana in which the worker can make a promise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963851
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A Teenager in Love : Multidimensional Human Capital and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2017
I examine teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959056
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Long-Run Consequences of Health Insurance Promotion : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana
Asuming, patrick opoku - 2017
We study the long-run impacts of health insurance promotion in Northern Ghana. We randomly provide three overlapping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943701
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Multidimensional Human Capital, Wages and Endogenous Employment Status in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2009
skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of education. This paper examines these issues for Ghana, by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765326
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From Ghana to America : The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development
Lo Bello, Salvatore - 2019
There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content of jobs. This paper contributes to this research by using data on the task content of occupations in developing countries, instead of U.S. data, as most existing studies do. The paper finds that indexes based on U.S. data do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870230