Domestic labor market outcomes influence the direction and magnitude of the flow of international migration. When wages are low and jobs are scarce, workers tend to migrate to environments where jobs are...
This book is designed to address two underlying questions. To what degree is education a good investment that increases labor productivity and contributes to economic growth? And to what extent does educational...
This paper argues that the comparative R2 procedure is often less satisfactory for decomposing inequality than is simulation with the estimated "true" relation determining the distribution of interest...
The occupational structure of wages is generally more compressed in high than in low income countries. The role of non-market forces in determining the structure of wages is of interest for reasons of...
Earnings function analysis is used to examine in detail, and on a rigorously comparable basis, the structure of earnings in Kenya and in Tanzania. A grand regression and a simpler working regression, which...
The effects of various policy simulations on the earnings premium to secondary education in Tanzania and Kenya are analyzed. A methodology is presented for estimating both the actual premium and the premium...
The relationship between the structure of wages by education and the relative supply of educated labour is examined using three comparable surveys of workers in the manufacturing sector: Tanzania 1971...
The social efficiency of labor markets in developing countries in the allocation of the supply of labor time and skills is assessed. Conventionally, open urban unemployment and disguised unemployment in...