Unobserved heterogeneity and the relation between earnings and firm size: evidence from two developing countries
Date
2005Author
Söderboma, M
Teal, F
Wambugu, A
Type
ArticleLanguage
enMetadata
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Large firms in Ghana and Kenya pay much higher wages than small ones. We use panel data to show this is not the result of employing high-ability individuals. The size effect remains substantial with controls for individual fixed effects.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176504003519http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/38648
Publisher
Elsevier Department of Economics, University of Nairobi,