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. -- dualism ; labor markets ; employment ; segmentation ; Ghana …Using estimates of earnings functions in Ghana, this paper examines patterns of labor market segmentation with regard … segments of the employed labor force. We find evidence of labor market segmentation between formal and informal employment and …
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industries are assessed against an employment-based industrial complexity index. The results indicate that Ghana's export and …This paper uses the case of Ghana to unpack the role of the informal sector in the process of structural change. A … structuralist view of structural change - framed as changes in the employment shares of different industries - is combined with the …
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industries are assessed against an employment-based industrial complexity index. The results indicate that Ghana’s export and …This paper uses the case of Ghana to unpack the role of the informal sector in the process of structural change. A … structuralist view of structural change – framed as changes in the employment shares of different industries – is combined with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264478
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 …
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regeneration of dependence on "traditional" informal sector and casual wage employment, which are often expected to dissolve over …
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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 complementarity holds in aggregate level and wood-furniture sector in Ghana. However, we reject the …
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outcomes in developing countries. We exploit a rich dataset from Ghana that provides information on demographics, labor market … individual behavior and outcomes. We find that, at least for the case of Ghana, after controlling for IQ and other covariates …
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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
, Ghana enacted the Intestate Succession (PNDC) Law 111, 1985 and 1998 Children's Act 560 to force men to provide for their …
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itself consists of a broad range of goods), this case study reviews the example of Ghana to illustrate this problem, although …
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