TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Strobl, Eric
AU  - Thornton, Robert
        TI  - Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries
        PY  - 2002/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 660
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp660
        AB  - Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible
explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has
been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker characteristics most potential theories cannot explain very much of the wage premium received in larger firms. Moreover, we find that the employer size wage effect does not differ greatly across the five African countries. Like other developing nations it is, however, larger than that found in the industrialised world, and, unlike the industrialised world, larger for white
than blue collar workers. Additionally, data for one of the African countries in conjunction with other tentative evidence suggests that this may in part be because skill biased technology affects the firm size wage distribution across skill groups in developing countries more.
        KW  - Zimbabwe
KW  - Ghana
KW  - Cameroon
KW  - employer size wage effect
KW  - Kenya
KW  - Zambia
        ER  -