Ghana's status as one of the African Lions is linked to the country's remarkable growth performance, which culminated … in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally … employment generating sectors of mining and oil extraction. Fixing the problem of the missing middle of dwindling manufacturing …

1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and …

and the probability of getting one shows that schooling increases the chances of being hired in formal employment and of … having higher earnings in it. Women with greater responsibilities at home are less likely to want formal employment, and they … also face a lower probability of being hired in such jobs. The findings indicate the segmentation of Mexican labour markets …

both the extensive and intensive margins, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in … which strict stay-at-home orders were issued and enforced in two spatially delimited areas, bringing Ghana's major …-in-differences design, we find that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the …

-term labour market outcomes in Ghana. We use the education reform of 1987 as a natural experiment, which reduced the years of …

In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend … in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the …