This paper estimates the association between innovation and employment growth among manufacturing firms in Africa. The paper uses a cross-sectional World Bank Enterprise Survey dataset in which innovation is categorised as product innovation and process innovation. Results from the pooled...

Using firm-level data from Kenyan manufacturing firms, we evaluate the hotly debated and popular view that small firms create the most jobs and are the primary source of employment growth. Using the methods of ordinary least squares and Feasible generalized least squares, findings reveal that...

Is the poor aggregate employment growth of the manufacturing sector in Sub-Saharan African countries the outcome of inadequate job creation or rival forces of job creation and job destruction acting in opposite direction? Using a unique dataset from the Kenyan manufacturing sector, we examine...