This paper considers ways of collecting price data in a Living Standard Survey. Its objective is to comment on the efficiency of collecting price data through household surveys and to consider alternative...
The objective in this note is to show the change in wage dispersion in response to increases in the relative supply of educated workers in two low-income countries. We also measure the relative contributions...
An establishment-based survey of employees in the Tanzanian manufacturing sector, providing information not only on workers but also on their employers, is analyzed to test various hypotheses about wage...
Labor market discrimination by sex and by race in poor urban economy is analyzed using a survey of manufacturing employees in Tanzania. There are large differences in mean wages by both sex and race. Using...
An establishment-based survey of employees in the Tanzanian manufacturing sector yields evidence of a marked change in the stability of urban workers. Migration for wage employment was circular and short-term;...
Earnings function analysis is used to examine in detail, and on a rigorously comparable basis, the structure of earnings in Kenya and in Tanzania. A grand regression and a simpler working regression, which...
The effects of various policy simulations on the earnings premium to secondary education in Tanzania and Kenya are analyzed. A methodology is presented for estimating both the actual premium and the premium...
Annotated tables based on the Kenya Survey of Wage Employment and Education present description and analysis of the data, which is confined to simple techniques, not with sophisticated analysis. In this...
An earnings function analysis of a 1971 survey of employees in the manufacturing sector of Tanzania combines personal and firm characteristics, attempts to delve into and explain the relationships revealed...
The relationship between the structure of wages by education and the relative supply of educated labour is examined using three comparable surveys of workers in the manufacturing sector: Tanzania 1971...
Annotated tables based on the Tanzania Survey of Wage Employment and Education present description and analysis of the data, which is confined to simple techniques, not with sophisticated analysis. In...
This paper, which is only a small part of a much larger research project, compares the growth of the supply of and demand for educated labor in Kenya and Tanzania and some implications of inter-county...
An establishment-based survey of employees in the Tanzanian manufacturing sector, providing information not only on workers but also on their employers, is analyzed to test various hypotheses about wage...
Labor market discrimination by sex and by race in poor urban economy is analyzed using a survey of manufacturing employees in Tanzania. There are large differences in mean wages by both sex and race. Using...
An establishment-based survey of employees in the Tanzanian manufacturing sector yields evidence of a marked change in the stability of urban workers. Migration for wage employment was circular and short-term;...
Earning function analysis of an establishment-based survey of employees in the Tanzanian manufacturing sector yields evidence of positive interaction between education and experience. An explanation, that...
The data and results in this preliminary set of annotated tables are part of a much larger project comparing the consequences of educational expansion in Kenya and Tanzania. The paper is concerned with...