Sub-Saharan Employment Developments : The Important Role of Household Enterprises with an Application to Rwanda /

This paper documents the structural transformation in employment that has taken place in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) over the past 15 years. In contrast to Asian economies, where at least half of the labor flows out of agriculture have gone into industry, in SSA, most of the workers have ended up in th...

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Autor principal: Thomas, Alun
Formato: Revista
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Colección:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/185
Acceso en línea:Full text available on IMF
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