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- Title
FROM MIGRANTS TO PROLETARIANS: EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE, MOBILITY AND WAGES IN TANZANIA.
- Authors
Knight, J. B.; Sabot, R. H.
- Abstract
The article attempts to determine how and why employment experience is rewarded by employers, and what are the determinants and consequences of the extent of labor mobility in Tanzania. It examines the relationship between employment experience and earnings. The article highlights the distinction between marketable and non-marketable human capital. An overview of the wage labor force in Tanzania is given. It provides a conventional account of the relation between aggregate employment experience and earnings. The study compares human capital with non-human capital and external with internal labor market interpretations of the findings. It also presents some relevant results on the causes and consequences of inter-firm mobility.
- Subjects
LABOR incentives; PERSONNEL management; EMPLOYEE motivation; LABOR mobility; WAGES; LABOR market; EMPLOYMENT; MATHEMATICAL models of economics; INDUSTRIAL relations
- Publication
Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, 1982, Vol 44, Issue 3, p199
- ISSN
0305-9049
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0084.1982.mp44003002.x