Labor Productivity and Employment Gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa (Record no. 27687)
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| control field | The World Bank |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1596/1813-9450-7234 |
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| System control number | (The World Bank)7234 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | McCullough, Ellen B. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Labor Productivity and Employment Gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Medium | [electronic resource] / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | McCullough, Ellen B. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Washington, D.C., |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | The World Bank, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2015 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (44 p.) |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Drawing on a new set of nationally representative, internationally comparable household surveys, this paper provides an overview of key features of structural transformation-labor allocation and labor productivity-in four African economies. New, micro-based measures of sector labor allocation and cross-sector productivity differentials describe the incentives households face when allocating their labor. These measures are similar to national accounts-based measures that are typically used to characterize structural changes in African economies. However, because agricultural workers supply far fewer hours of labor per year than do workers in other sectors, productivity gaps disappear almost entirely when expressed on a per-hour basis. What look like large productivity gaps in national accounts data could really be employment gaps, calling into question the prospective gains that laborers can achieve through structural transformation. These employment gaps, along with the strong linkages observed between rural non-farm activities and primary agricultural production, highlight agriculture's continued relevance to structural change in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Agricultural Labor Productivity |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Banks and Banking Reform |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Economic Theory & Research |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Labor Markets |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Labor Policies |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Productivity Gaps |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Sector Labor Shares |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Structural Transformation |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Work & Working Conditions |
| 651 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | McCullough, Ellen B. |
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| Main entry heading | Print version: |
| Display text | McCullough, Ellen B. |
| Title | Labor Productivity and Employment Gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2015 |
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| Uniform title | Policy research working papers. |
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| Uniform title | World Bank e-Library. |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-7234">http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-7234</a> |
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