Exploring the relationship between job quality and firm productivity in the manufacturing sector: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia
Exploring the relationship between job quality and firm productivity in the manufacturing sector: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia
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dc.contributor.author | Getahun, Tigabu D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Fetene, Gebeyehu M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Baumüller, Heike | |
dc.contributor.author | Kubik, Zaneta | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-12T09:18:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-07-12T09:18:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 07.2024 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/11660 | |
dc.description.abstract | By leveraging firm-level panel data from 400 agro-processing and leather manufacturing firms in Ethiopia, this paper investigates links between firm productivity and monetary and non-monetary dimensions of job quality. The results point to a positive impact of higher salaries on firm productivity, but limited effects of non-monetary job quality indicators. Specifically, a 10% increase on each of the salaries of tenured medium- and high-skilled workers increase sales per worker by 1.79% and 1.46%, respectively, ceteris paribus. Similarly, increasing the starting salary of medium-skilled workers by 10% increases profit per worker, sales per worker and value-add per worker by 2.27%, 2.43% and 2.44%, respectively. Non-monetary job quality indicators had a weak impact on productivity, however, reducing the incentive of employers to invest in job quality improvements. Impact of productivity increases on monetary and non-monetary job quality indicators follow a similar pattern. An increase in profit per worker was found to increase the salaries of both tenured employees and new hires. For instance, a 10% increase in profit per worker increases tenured salaries of low-and medium-skilled workers by 0.2% and 0.3%, respectively, and starting salaries for low, medium and high-skilled workers by 0.21%, 0.28% and 0.27%, respectively. However, a statistically significant impact of profit per worker and value add per worker on non-monetary aspects of job quality was not. | en |
dc.format.extent | 37 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; 349 | |
dc.rights | In Copyright | |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject | Africa | |
dc.subject | Employment | |
dc.subject | Food processing | |
dc.subject.ddc | 630 Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin | |
dc.subject.ddc | 670 Industrielle und handwerkliche Fertigung | |
dc.title | Exploring the relationship between job quality and firm productivity in the manufacturing sector: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia | |
dc.type | Arbeitspapier | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.48565/bonndoc-325 | |
dc.publisher.name | Center for Development Research (ZEF) | |
dc.publisher.location | Bonn | |
dc.rights.accessRights | openAccess | |
dc.relation.eissn | 1436-9931 | |
dc.relation.url | https://www.zef.de/fileadmin/webfiles/downloads/zef_dp/ZEF_DP_349.pdf | |
ulbbn.pubtype | Zweitveröffentlichung |