Risk Sharing in Labour Markets. by Bigsten, A, Collier, P, Dercon, S, Fafchamps, M, Gauthier, B, Gunning, J, Oduro, A, Oostendorp, R, Pattillo, C, Söderbom, M, Teal, F, Zeufack, A

Risk Sharing in Labour Markets. by Bigsten, A, Collier, P, Dercon, S, Fafchamps, M, Gauthier, B, Gunning, J, Oduro, A, Oostendorp, R, Pattillo, C, Söderbom, M, Teal, F, Zeufack, A

Occupational choices and their outcomes in African labour markets by Falco, P

“…The conclusion of the first chapter is that attitudes to risk should feature more prominently in models of sector allocation and in the design of labour market policies, in particular when those policies aim to impact workers' vulnerability to risk and uncertainty.…”

Urban African Labour Markets and the Policy Credibility Problem. by Collier, P, Hoddinott, J, Teal, F

Labour Market Flexibility, Wages and Incomes in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s. by Kingdon, G, Sandefur, J, Teal, F

“…This paper provides an overview of how African labour markets have performed in the 1990s. It is argued that the failure of African labour markets to create good paying jobs has resulted in excess labour supply in the form of either open unemployment or a growing self-employment sector. …”

Human capital, informality and labour market outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa by Kerr, A

“…In chapter three I build an equilibrium search model of the urban Tanzanian labour market to explain the choice of wage and self-employment and the variation in earnings across and within these sectors.…”

The Size and Sources of Economic Rents in a Developing Country Manufacturing Labour Market. by Teal, F

The size and sources of economic rents in a developing country manufacturing labour market by Teal, F

Private sector development and income dynamics: A panel study of the Tanzanian labour market. by Quinn, S, Teal, F

Essays in labour economics: Thailand’s labour market adjustment during the structural transformation process by Jirasavetakul, L

“…The three main chapters attempt to estimate the effects of education, as a measure of human capital, on three major outcomes in the Thai labour market, namely (i) earnings; (ii) sector of employment; and (iii) earnings inequality. …”

Private sector development and income dynamics: a panel study of the Tanzanian labour market by Quinn, S, Teal, F

African poverty through the lens of labor economics: Earnings & mobility in three countries. by Sandefur, J, Serneels, P, Teal, F

“…In this note we make use of embryonic labour market panel surveys of the urban sectors of Ghana and Tanzania, and a longer term survey from Ethiopia, to address some aspects of the determinants of earnings across the wage and self-employed and provide preliminary evidence on transitions across labour market states. …”

The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel data evidence from South Africa. by Kerr, A, Teal, F

“…In this paper we analyse the relative importance of individual ability and labour market institutions, including public sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences across different types of employment. …”

Dataset for CSAE Working Paper WPS/2008-09 by Quinn, S, Teal, F

“…Dataset for CSAE Working Paper WPS/2008-09: "Private sector development and income dynamics: A panel study of the Tanzanian labour market"…”

Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones? by Baptist, S, Teal, F

“…They are also consistent with work in developing countries which finds a convex return to education based on individual labour market data. Allowing for differences in the shape of the relationship between productivity and human capital across countries is crucial for understanding the role of human capital in increasing productivity.…”

Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones? by Baptist, S, Teal, F

“…They are also consistent with work in developing countries which finds a convex return to education based on individual labour market data. Allowing for differences in the shape of the relationship between productivity and human capital across countries is crucial for understanding the role of human capital in increasing productivity.…”

Gender, Education and Occupational Outcomes: Kenya’s Informal Sector in the 1990s. by Atieno, R, Teal, F

“…Indeed in what we think is the most important category for explaining poor female labour market outcomes, unpaid family labour, the gap widens substantially over 10 to 20 years of work experience.…”

Estimating the shape of the South African schooling-earnings profile by Burger, R

“…Chapter 3 uses dynamic programming techniques to investigate the schooling decisions of rational, dynamically optimising agents in a model that seeks to incorporate key aspects of the South African labour market. Our results produce a schooling-earnings profile which is convex, although the degree of convexity is less than suggested by previous studies that use OLS to estimate this relationship. …”

The price of labour and understanding the causes of poverty. by Teal, F

“…Another possible explanation is that the unobserved characteristics of workers are more important than the observed and that processes of matching and search lead to the outcomes we observe in labour markets. It is argued that these explanations are not mutually exclusive and that different processes may operate across labour markets both within and across countries. …”

Essays on rural-to-urban migration and urban industrial performance in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kudo, Y

“…<p>This thesis consists of three independent but thematically related papers exploring the income determination process in African labour markets from spatial and sectoral perspectives.…”