| Description |
1 online resource |
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Routledge revivals |
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The making of modern Africa |
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Routledge revivals.
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Making of modern Africa.
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| Contents |
Labor Markets and their Development in sub-Saharan Africa -- Labor Market Institutions in Africa -- Wage and Employment Trends in the Formal Sector -- Trends in Manufacturing Wages in the Sixties -- Wage Trends in Recent Decades -- Trends in Wages, Wage Shares and Value Added in Manufacturing -- The Rural-Urban Wage Gap in Africa -- The Theory of Rural-Urban Wage Gap in Africa -- The Ratio of the Earnings of Wage Labor in Agriculture and Manufacturing -- The Evolution of Labor Markets and the Rural-Urban Earnings Gap in Kenya -- The Evolution of Labor Markets and the Rural-Urban Earnings Gap in Ghana -- The Evolution of Labor Markets and the Rural-Urban Earnings Gap in Other Countries -- Impact of Wage Decline -- Change in Earnings over the Lifetime of Workers -- The Impact of the Wage Decline on Competitiveness in African Manufacturing: A Case Study of Kenya -- The Structure of Labor Markets in African Manufacturing -- The Structure of the Labor Force and of Earnings -- Determinants of Earnings of Manufacturing Workers -- Wage Difference by Size of Firm: An Extended Analysis |
| Summary |
"This title was first published in 2002: Analyzing labour market trends in sub-Saharan Africa since 1970, this volume employs data collected from the International Labor Organization (ILO), United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and World Bank (the RPED surveys). It examines the economics of the labour market against the presistent decline in real wages over some 20 years in some of these countries. Setting the African story against the background of wage-employment trends in other regions of the world, the author proceeds to examine the impact of this decline on the rural-urban earnings gap. The consequences of the declining wage levels on the lifetime earnings of workers and on trends in labour productivity are then discussed, followed by an analysis of the employment and wage structure in African manufacturing firms."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 19, 2018) |
| Subject |
Wages -- Africa
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Labor market -- Africa
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Labor market.
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Wages.
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Africa.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mazaheri, Ata, author.
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| ISBN |
9781315190624 |
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1315190621 |
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