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Issue and Page Numbers: Volume 106, Issue 6 - November 1996

Article Title: 'The size and sources of economic rents in a developing country manufacturing labour market ' by Francis Teal

File size: 412KB

Description of data:

The data on this disc refers to the data used to produce the
results reported in "The size and sources of economic rents in
a developing country manufacturing labour market" Economic
Journal July 1996.

The data file is called rent.dat and is an ascii file of the
following variables:
firm Firm identifying number;
male Dummy=1 if worker is male;
hours Hours worked;
earnm Monthly earnings in cedis;
lnearnm Log of monthly earnings in cedis;
age Age of the worker in years ;
agesq Age of the worker squared;
tenure Tenure defined as how many years in present job;
educ Years of education;
mgmt Dummy=1 if occupation defined as management;
sales Dummy=1 if occupation defined as sales;
admin Dummy=1 if occupation defined as administration;
tech Dummy=1 if occupation defined as technical worker;
super Dummy=1 if occupation defined as supervisor;
master Dummy=1 if occupation defined as master;
prod Dummy=1 if occupation defined as production worker;
accra Dummy=1 if location is Accra;
kum Dummy=1 if location is Kumasi;
tak Dummy=1 if location is Takoradi;
foods Dummy=1 if sector is foods (excluding bakery);
bakery Dummy=1 if sector is bakery;
textile Dummy=1 if sector is textile;
garment Dummy=1 if sector is garment;
wood Dummy=1 if sector is wood;
furn Dummy=1 if sector is furniture;
machines Dummy=1 if sector is machines;
lemp Log of employment where employment is total number of
workers and apprentices in the firm;
fmage firm age;
union Dummy=1 if firm is unionised;
lcapemp Log of the capital labour ratio;
premp profits per employee
anyfor Dummy=1 if firm has any foreign ownership;
statgh Dummy=1 if firm has any state ownership;
intsh Share of intermediate costs in the value of output;
borrfe Formal borrowing per employee
lprate Log of the profit rate;
wave2 Dummy=1 if wave 2 of the data;
wave3 Dummy=1 if wave 3 of the data;

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