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 … to formal and informal employment. Persistent earnings differentials are used as indicators of limited mobility across …

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 …

regeneration of dependence on "traditional" informal sector and casual wage employment, which are often expected to dissolve over …

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 …

labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and … informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on informality and self-employment and information on labor inspections …. Our results offer evidence for both comparative advantage and segmentation. No significant differences between the …

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 …

market data reinforces the idea of a large private sector, which provides about 90% of total employment opportunities … account on average for only 10% of total employment (a share similar to that provided by public administration and state owned … enterprises). South Africa is the notable exception, with formal wage employment in the private sector representing 46% of total …

gaps in the country, and (2) whether informal sector employment is due to labour market segmentation (i.e. last resort) or …This paper examines the labour market dynamics of Ghana by specifically assessing: (1) the informal-formal earnings …, there is both segmentation and competitiveness within the informal labour market. Our results highlight the importance of …

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 …