IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/csa/wpaper/1998-19.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Skill formation and job matching effects in wage growth: the case of manufacturing workers in Ethiopia

Author

Listed:
  • Taye Mengistae

Abstract

In this paper, I analyse production and labour market data from a random sample of manufacturing firms in Ethiopia in order to test for skill formation and job matching effects in wage growth. Based on estimated labor market experience and job seniority profiles of relative marginal pro¬ductivity and relative wages, I find that both on-the-job skill formation and job matching are significant sources the growth of productivity and wages with time in the labour market. However, there is also evidence in the same data that job matching is by far the more important of the two sources: net mobility gains are at least twice the return to skill formation for workers with at most ten years of time in the labour market.

Suggested Citation

  • Taye Mengistae, 1998. "Skill formation and job matching effects in wage growth: the case of manufacturing workers in Ethiopia," CSAE Working Paper Series 1998-19, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
    • Handle: RePEc:csa:wpaper:1998-19
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4d0ec6e4-1604-410f-99bb-cc3332548f4d
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Pieter Serneels, 2004. "The Nature of Unemployment in Urban Ethiopia," CSAE Working Paper Series 2004-01, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
    2. Pramila Krishnan, 2000. "Public sector pay and private sector wage premiums: testing alternative models of wage determination," CSAE Working Paper Series 2000-07, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    human capital formation; wage growth; labour productivity; job matching; job turnover; mobility; Ethiopia;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:csa:wpaper:1998-19. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Julia Coffey (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/csaoxuk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.