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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005533181
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/10014318971
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/10013465154
are used. We will try to clear the dynamics of the sector on the last twenty years regarding employment for it is the …
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of the units in terms of occupied workers and the segmentation of employment, the property of capital and self …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413477
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440655
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 …
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This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 - 2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at differ ent quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account...
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