Manufacturing employment and women’s agency: Evidence from Lesotho 2004–2014

Transportation and Minority Womens Employment: Insights from New York

Product diversification and stability of employment and sales: first evidence from German manufacturing firms

We use a unique rich newly built data set for German manufacturing enterprises to investigate the relationship between product diversification and the stability of sales and employment. We find that contrary to portfolio theoretic considerations more diversified firms exhibit a higher variability of sales and employment. However, the effects are negligibly small from an economics point of view.

Manufacturing employment in China

In recent decades, China has become a manufacturing powerhouse. The country’s official data showed 83 million manufacturing employees in 2002, but that figure is likely to be understated; the actual number was probably closer to 109 million. By contrast, in 2002, the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialized countries had a total of 53 million manufacturing workers. In the late 1990s through the...

Explaining the Trend toward Informal Employment in Africa: Evidence from Ghanaian Manufacturing

During the 1990s the proportion of the urban labor force working in the small scale, informal sector grew dramatically across Africa. We investigate the causes of this trend toward informality by studying the case of the manufacturing sector in Ghana, where the share of workers employed in small and micro enterprizes grew from roughly one third in 1987 to over half in 2003. By combining two wav...

Higher education, technical efficiency and total productivity changes: evidence from Iran's manufacturing industries

The purpose of this article was to estimate the effect of higher education on total productivity changes and technical efficiency in the 4-digit classification code of ISIC in Iran during the period of 1994-04. In this regard, a two-way stage approach was used. In the first stage, Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) and technical efficiency index by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic...