Browsing Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM) by Subject "Earnings"
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Real Wages and Returns to Education in Kenyan manufacturing
(2001)Increase in real earnings is one way to improve employees’ welfare and private returns to education shape demand for education. Four waves of data drawn from surveys of Kenya’s manufacturing sector are used to explore ... -
Unobserved heterogeneity and the relation between earnings and firm size: evidence from two developing countries
(ElsevierDepartment of Economics, University of Nairobi,, 2005)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 ...