Wage and Productivity Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa

Johannes Van Biesebroeck

NBER Working Paper No. 13306
Issued in August 2007

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This paper was presented at the Conference on Firm and Employees (CAFE) held September 29-30, 2006 in Nuremberg, Germany. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the Data Access Center (FDZ-BA/IAB), The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), their Research Network "Flexibility in Heterogeneous Labour Markets", the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Simon Woodcock, two anonymous referees, and seminar participants at the University of Illinois, Kellogg School of Management, Catholic University of Louvain, the NBER Productivity meetings, and the CAFE conference provided useful suggestions. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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