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Quality jobs or mass employment

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  • Kwabia Boateng

    (Department of Economics University of Ghana, Ghana)

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The general objective of the study is to explain the apparent failure of employment in theGhanaian labour market under SAP/ERP by evaluating changes in the qualitative distribution of labour demand, based on trends in advertised job vacancies from 1981 to 1995. The results indicate a significant (25%) increase in the demand for high-skill labour relative to low-skill labour in the ERP/SAP period, compared with pre-ERP/SAP period. Using decomposition techniques it is found that 51.2% of the increase in demand for high-skill labour is explained by changes in skill composition and 48.8% by changes in sectoral composition of jobs. The policy implication is that improvement in employment performance in Ghana will require additional investments in skill training and a keener effort to enhance occupational mobility.

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  • Kwabia Boateng, 1999. "Quality jobs or mass employment," Working Papers 98, African Economic Research Consortium, Research Department.
    • Handle: RePEc:aer:wpaper:98
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