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Wages and Labor Management in African Manufacturing.

Abstract:: Using matched employer-employee data from ten African countries, we examine the relationship between wages, worker supervision, and labor productivity in manufacturing. Wages increase with firm size for both production workers and supervisors. We develop a two-tier model of supervision that can account for this stylized fact and we fit the structural model to the data. We find a strong effect of both supervision and wages on effort and hence on labor productivity. Labor management in sub-Saha...
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Fafchamps, M., & Soderbom, M. (2006). Wages and Labor Management in African Manufacturing. Journal of Human Resources, 41.

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Fafchamps, M., and M. Soderbom. “Wages and Labor Management in African Manufacturing.” Journal of Human Resources, vol. 41, 2006.

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Fafchamps, M, and M Soderbom. 2006. “Wages and Labor Management in African Manufacturing.” Journal of Human Resources 41.
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Journal:: Journal of Human Resources
Volume:: 41
Publication date:: 2006-01-01

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Language:: English
UUID:: uuid:1ae1db45-a3dc-4a76-8779-df99db74c06f
Local pid:: oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:10990
Deposit date:: 2011-08-16

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Copyright date:: 2006

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