Deepening without Broadening? : Jobs in Ghana's Private Sector
Creating productive jobs is one of the greatest challenges in Ghana. This paper looks at job creation and its relationship with firm productivity and the quality of jobs among registered firms in the Ghanaian private sector, based on the 2013 World...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26818807/deepening-without-broadening-jobs-ghanas-private-sector http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25151 |
| Summary: | Creating productive jobs is one of the
greatest challenges in Ghana. This paper looks at job
creation and its relationship with firm productivity and the
quality of jobs among registered firms in the Ghanaian
private sector, based on the 2013 World Bank Enterprise
Survey. The study looks at the typology of firms in the
industry and service sectors, identifying those that have
created the most jobs, and the relative quality of these
jobs in terms of productivity and firms' average wage
bill. Although the formal private sector employs only a tiny
share of total employment, the results show that larger and
older firms account for the majority of workers, and formal
jobs density is highest in Accra (Accra Metropolitan Area
and Tema). Large firms also pay higher wages on average, are
more productive, and account for most of the aggregate net
formal job creation between 2010 and 2012. However, the
relationship between size and productivity is positive and
statistically significant, mostly driven by the upper part
of the firm size distribution, pointing to potential market
segmentations as micro, small, and medium firms create fewer
jobs and are less productive. Removing barriers to the
growth of micro, small, and medium size enterprises, and to
the allocation of resources toward more efficient firms
should be a key priority for policy makers. |
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