Estimation of the Economic Opportunity Cost of Labour: An Operational Guide for Ghana
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- Glenn P. Jenkins & Richard Sogah & Abdallah Othman & Mikhail Miklyaev & Çağay Coşkuner, 2023. "Estimation of the Economic Opportunity Cost of Labour: An Operational Guide for Ghana," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(14), pages 1-21, July.
- Glenn Jenkins & Richard Sogah & Abdallah Othman & Mikhail Miklyaev & Çagay Coskuner, 2023. "Estimation of the Economic Opportunity Cost of Labour: An Operational Guide for Ghana," Working Paper 1513, Economics Department, Queen's University.
- Abdallah Othman & Mikhail Miklyaev & Glenn P. Jenkins, 2022. "Estimation of the Economic Opportunity Cost of Labor: An Operational guide for Ghana," Development Discussion Papers 2022-07, JDI Executive Programs.
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Keywords
Ghana; job creation; economic cost; supply price; informal labour; formal labour; labour externality;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O2 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Q42 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Alternative Energy Sources
- Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-PPM-2023-11-13 (Project, Program and Portfolio Management)
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