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Sub-Saharan Employment Developments The Important Role of Household Enterprises with an Application to Rwanda

This paper documents the structural transformation in employment that has taken place in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) over the past 15 years. In contrast to Asian economies, where at least half of the labor flows out of agriculture have gone into industry, in SSA, most of the workers have ended up in th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas, Alun
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2015
Series:IMF Working Papers
Subjects:
Agribusiness
Labour
Income Distribution
Wages, Compensation, And Labor Costs: General
Unemployment
Aggregate Labor Productivity
Consumption Distribution
Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
Economic Sectors
Agriculture: General
Aggregate Human Capital
National Accounts
Agricultural Industries
Labor
Labor Force And Employment, Size, And Structure
Labor Force
Agricultural Sector
Labor Market
Macroeconomics
Agricultural Economics
Wages
Economic Theory
Intergenerational Income Distribution
Income Economics
Employment
Rwanda
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This paper documents the structural transformation in employment that has taken place in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) over the past 15 years. In contrast to Asian economies, where at least half of the labor flows out of agriculture have gone into industry, in SSA, most of the workers have ended up in the service sector, especially household enterprises. Rwanda has been one of the stellar performers in SSA in terms of structural transformation with the strongest movement of workers out of agriculture. Contrary to conventional wisdom, except for the very top of the distribution of consumption in Rwanda, families in household enterprises now consume as much as non-agricultural wage earners
Physical Description:18 pages
ISBN:9781513513034

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