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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 …
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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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After a decade of rapid growth, industrialization has lost ground with shrinking manufacturing sector and high informality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper explores how land market and labor regulations affect factor allocative efficiency and firm performance in SSA. Using pooled data on...
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Les marchés du travail en Afrique restent à ce jour largement inexplorés et leur fonctionnement méconnu. Leur connaissance est pourtant centrale dans les politiques de développement et de lutte contre la pauvreté. Quelles sont les personnes qui n’ont pas accès à l’emploi ou sont...
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this context raises a quite relevant problematic in linking the issue of segmentation of labor market to that of validation …
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This report presents a statistical profile of informal employment in South Africa from 2005 to 2007, using September … employment and its recent trends. It describes the nature of informal work in South Africa and highlights heterogeneity in the …
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