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Title: | Earnings-per-worker differentials in the provinces of Kenya, 1963-1970 |
Author: | House, William J. |
Year: | 1975 |
Periodical: | Journal of Developing Areas |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 359-376 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subject: | wages |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4190268 http://search.proquest.com/pao/docview/1311645397 |
Abstract: | In Kenya provincial cost-of-living indexes are nonexistent, and the only component of personal income available on a provincial basis is wages and salaries of employees. This study concentrates on examining earnings-per-worker differentials in the provinces of Kenya during the period 1963-70, but only for employment in the 'modern' sector. Also investigated are the relative provincial changes in earnings per worker in the modern sector during the period 1963-70. Because of data constraints, this study does no more than compare the changing earnings of the 'average' employee in the 'modern' sector of each province with those of an 'average' employee in Kenya. An attempt is made to identify the strategic variables in the growth of the modern sector in each province, including the relative growth rates in overall employment, relative changes in sectoral importance within provinces and changing earnings differentials within similarly classified industries, all of which help determine changes in earnings-per-worker differences among the provinces. Notes, tables, figure, appendix. |