Earnings gaps, Segmentation and Competitiveness in the Ghanaian Labour Market
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Keywords
Informal labour market; finite mixture model; segmentation; comparative advantage; Ghana;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J46 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Informal Labor Market
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
- N17 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Africa; Oceania
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IUE-2020-03-16 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2020-03-16 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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