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The labour productivity differentials between manufacturing firms in Ghana and South Korea exceed those implied by macro analysis. Median value-added per employee is nearly 40 times higher in South Korea than Ghana. The most important single factor in explaining this difference is the Mincerian return to skills which differ by a factor of three between Ghana and South Korea. There is no significant difference in total factor productivity across the countries once we allow for human capital. O...
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- 2008-01-01
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- Simon Baptist & Francis Teal and Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE)
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- 2008
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Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?
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