Go to AfricaBib home

Go to AfricaBib home AfricaBib Go to database home

bibliographic database
Line
Previous page New search

The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here

Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Wages, industrial employment and labour productivity: the Kenyan experience
Authors:Harris, J.R.ISNI
Todaro, M.P.ISNI
Year:1969
Periodical:Eastern Africa Economic Review
Volume:1
Issue:1
Pages:29-46
Language:English
Geographic term:Kenya
Subjects:wages
labour productivity
Abstract:Present evidence from Kenya suggesting that labour productivity growth (and, thus, employment growth) is in fact functionally related to the level and growth of industrial real wages. Basic argument is that for the unskilled African labour force the level and growth of industrial employment (and, indirectly urban employment) is largely determined by the level and expected growth of industrial real wage rates. Moreover, on the basis of their findings the authors argue that Kenya and other developing nations in a similar situation are faced with a fundamental political as well as economic choice as to whether in the short run they prefer to have a high productivity, high wage, elite industrial labour force with considerable urban unemployment, or, a lower productivity, lower wage but considerably larger industrial labour force with relatively lower levels of urban unemployment. Ref., tables, figures. (Comment on this article: Eastern Afr. Econ. Rev., 4 (1972), 1, p. 71-74 by J.R. King).
Views