socio-emotional skills, time and risk preferences, and education, using data from rural Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, and …

"Professional skills are scarce in Mozambique, even by the standards of low-income countries. The solution, however, is … not necessarily to create more Mozambican training institutions but to address market-specific problems. Where skills are … exploit economies of scale.Where skills may be limited but are not yet the binding constraint, the priority is to stimulate …

Africa's linkages in manufacturing global value chains are reasonably high compared with other developing regions … increased sharply in countries that are rich in natural resources. Moreover, the level and dynamics of linkages to manufacturing … cut across broad activity categories, including manufacturing textiles and apparel, metal products, transport equipment …

skills and manufacturing global value chains are available for 19 subsectors was constructed. A fixed-effect gravity model …This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa …'s participation in manufacturing global value chains. Due to lack of reliable data on skilled labor, skilled and unskilled labor …

"Using recent matched employer-employee data from the manufacturing sector in 20 Sub-Saharan African countries, the … authors analyze how the supply of skills and legal origin of the country affect the wage setting process. The wage analysis …

gains in cognitive development, communication, fine motor skills, and socio-emotional skills, scoring 0.33 standard …