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Outcomes of Worker Effort and Supervision in Tanzanian Labour Market

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dc.creator Kahyarara, Godius W.
dc.date 2016-03-23T13:42:20Z
dc.date 2016-03-23T13:42:20Z
dc.date 2014
dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-27T09:04:47Z
dc.date.available 2018-03-27T09:04:47Z
dc.identifier Kahyarara, G., 2014. Outcomes of Worker Effort and Supervision in Tanzanian Labour Market. DBA Africa Management Review, 4(1).
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1291
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4544
dc.description Full text can be accessed at http://chss.uonbi.ac.ke/sites/default/files/chss/VOL%204%20NO%201.docx
dc.description This paper examines the impact of work effort and supervision in the Tanzanian labour market. In particular it focuses on the extent to which observed earnings and productivity of a worker might be influenced by both the individual effort of a worker and intensity of supervision. To assess the earnings effect of work effort, the paper estimates the hourly earnings equation, which includes work effort and monitoring intensity among the determinants of the hourly earnings. The estimates control for unobserved firm specific effects and GMM production functions. Key findings of the paper are that a worker who exerts higher effort at work increases hourly earnings by about 27 per cent. Estimates of productivity affect via GMM shows that increase in the monitoring intensity increased the gross output per employee by about 34 per cent. The estimated coefficient is stable even after a range of factors are controlled for. The paper concludes that labour market reforms introduced in Tanzania on increased autonomy and flexibility of firm level work supervision and pay have positive outcomes for both employers and employees.
dc.language en
dc.subject worker effort
dc.subject Labour market
dc.subject Tanzania
dc.subject Supervision
dc.subject outcomes
dc.title Outcomes of Worker Effort and Supervision in Tanzanian Labour Market
dc.type Journal Article


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