| dc.creator | House, William J. | |
| dc.creator | Rempel, Henry | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-11T11:09:07Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-11T11:09:07Z | |
| dc.date | 1974-12 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T12:58:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T12:58:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | House, William J. and Rempel, Henry. (1974) The determinants of and changes in the structure of wages and employment in the manufacturing sector of the Kenya economy, 1967-1972. Discussion Paper 207, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/618 | |
| dc.identifier | 318189 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1913 | |
| dc.description | Using data from the Kenya Ministry of Finance and Planning's
Central Bureau of Statistics, the structure of employment and wages in
4-2 industries in the Kenya manufacturing sector is considered. This
includes a description of the structure and an empirical test of several
hypotheses which seek to explain the determinants of the existing structure.
In addition, the interaction between changes in the wage structure and
changes in employment are considered.
The available evidence indicates considerable dispersion among
industries in wages paid, especially for skilled employees. These differences
in wages paid are explained rather successfully by the hypotheses tested,
namely relative differences among industries in their respective abilities
to pay wages above the supply price of labour, the extent and nature of
skilled labour required and such institutional factors as industry
differences in the proportion of the labour force employed in Nairobi
and in Government enterprises. These measures were more effective in
explaining the structure of wages for skilled employees than for the
unskilled. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;207 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Economic Development | |
| dc.subject | Work and Labour | |
| dc.title | The determinants of and changes in the structure of wages and employment in the manufacturing sector of the Kenya economy, 1967-1972 | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
