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Title: | Wages, Market Imperfections and Labour Absorption in Kenya Manufacturing Industries |
Author: | Senga, W.M. |
Year: | 1973 |
Periodical: | Eastern Africa Economic Review |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 53-74 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | wages labour productivity industry Economics and Trade Labor and Employment |
Abstract: | Provides further empirical evidence on the wage-employment-productivity relationships by using less aggregated data than J.R. Harris and M.P. Todaro ('Wages, Industrial Employment and Labour Productivity', in: Eastern Afr. Econ. Rev. 1 (1969), p. 29-46) and also by incorporating certain foreign investment effects which are beleived to be responsible for the existence of particular market imperfections. The following questions are discussed: What forces other than simply the growth of capital and labour have contributed to industrial growth? Have forces like technical progress and increasing returns to scale played any significant role? What market imperfections have influenced the purchase or employment of labour inputs? Has the existence of these market imperfections affected the elasticity of substitution? Have the policies of the Government towards attracting foreign investments had any significant effects on labour productivity and hence on industrial development? Ref., tables. |