Wages and Labor Management in African Manufacturing

Autor/inn/en	Fafchamps, Marcel; Soderbom, Mans
Titel	Wages and Labor Management in African Manufacturing
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 41 (2006) 2, S.346-379 (34 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Wages; Manufacturing; Supervision; Models; Labor Relations; Productivity; Supervisor Supervisee Relationship; Africa; Morocco + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Wage; Löhne; Herstellung; Analogiemodell; Arbeitsbeziehung; Produktivität; Afrika; Marokko
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-Saharan Africa appears problematic, with much higher supervisor-to-worker ratios than elsewhere and a higher elasticity of effort with respect to supervision than in Morocco. (Author).
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