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Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?
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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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Not peer reviewed
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- Series:
- CSAE working paper series
- Place of publication:
- http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers/main-wps.html
- Publication date:
- 2008-01-01
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- English
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- ora:2570
- Deposit date:
- 2009-02-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Simon Baptist & Francis Teal
- Copyright date:
- 2008
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