An analysis of the variation in modern sector earnings among the Districts and major urban centres in kenya.
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Date
1975Author
House, William J
Rempel, Henry
Type
Working PaperLanguage
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The paper analyses a large body of unpublished data collected
by the Annual 2numeration of Employees. Occupational and industrial
wage differentials are examined at the national level and then the
technique of standardization is eQployed to explain inter-district and
inter-town average Dodern sector earnings differentials.
These differences are attributed to the occupational and
industrial "mixes" of the districts and town and to the "area effect"
the extent to which sinilarly classified occupations and industries
pay different wages in districts and town. The latter effect is taken
as a measure of the extent to F!1ich labour markets are segmented. and
is found to be particularly important in modern sector district labour
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Institute of Development StudiesPublisher
University of Nairobi