Wages and Labor Management in African Manufacturing
Wages and Labor Management in African Manufacturing
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非洲制造业的工资和劳动力管理
DOI：
10.3368/jhr.xli.2.356
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发表时间：
2004
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通讯作者：
Måns Söderbom
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作者：
M. Fafchamps;Måns Söderbom
使用来自10个非洲国家的匹配的雇主-雇员数据，我们检验了工资、工人监督和制造业劳动生产率之间的关系。生产工人和管理人员的工资都随着公司规模的扩大而增加。我们开发了一个能够解释这一风格化事实的两层监管模型，并将结构模型与数据进行了匹配。我们发现，监督和工资都会对劳动努力产生强烈的影响，从而影响劳动生产率。撒哈拉以南非洲的劳动力管理似乎存在问题，主管与工人的比例比其他地方高得多，监督方面的工作弹性也比摩洛哥高得多。
Using matched employer-employee data from ten African countries, we examine the relationship between wages, worker supervision, and labor productivity in manufacturing. Wages increase with firm size for both production workers and supervisors. We develop a two-tier model of supervision that can account for this stylized fact and we fit the structural model to the data. We find a strong effect of both supervision and wages on effort and hence on labor productivity. Labor management in sub-Saharan Africa appears problematic, with much higher supervisor-to-worker ratios than elsewhere and a higher elasticity of effort with respect to supervision than in Morocco.