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• Publication - Working Paper

  Job flows and worker turnover: Evidence from matched employer‑employee data from Ethiopia

  This paper examines job and worker flows in the formal private sector of Ethiopia using matched employer-employee data. We find a very high worker turnover rate (38%) associated with a relatively lacklustre job growth. Nearly half of worker turnover is driven by firm-level job creation and destruction while the other half is due to excess turnover or churning. A...

  23 Apr 2021 | Admasu Shiferaw, Måns Söderbom, Getnet Alemu

  
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• Blog post

  Worker turnover and job flows in the formal private sector of Ethiopia

  Creating a sufficient number of stable and well-paying jobs remains a major challenge for African economies. Urban labour markets in the region are marked by high informality and unemployment rates, and most jobs offer minimum job security and typically very low wages. Indeed in Ethiopia, the informal economy is estimated to account for over 38% of GDP with data from the...

  14 Feb 2020 | Måns Söderbom, Admasu Shiferaw, Getnet Alemu

• Project

  Job Flows and labour mobility in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Ethiopia

  Ethiopia’s rapid economic growth since the millennium contrasts with its lack of structural transformation and modest employment growth in the formal sector. High youth unemployment rate in urban areas (above 25 % on average) and relatively low real wages among the employed remain important policy challenges. Unfortunately, only a few studies have attempted to...

  18 Dec 2019 | Måns Söderbom, Admasu Shiferaw, Getnet Alemu

• Publication - Working Paper

  Road Infrastructure and Enterprise Development in Ethiopia (Working Paper)

  3 Sep 2014 | Admasu Shiferaw, Måns Söderbom, Eyerusalem Siba, Getnet Alemu

  
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• Blog post

  Road networks and enterprise performance in Ethiopia: Evidence from the road sector development programme

  Poor infrastructure and high transport costs are among the major constraining factors for Africa’s global competitiveness and economic growth (World Bank 2009, Bloom and Sachs 1998). Transport costs in Africa are indeed among the highest in the developing world. Recently, many African countries have begun to address this problem through large-scale investment programmes...

  8 Dec 2013 | Admasu Shiferaw, Måns Söderbom, Eyerusalem Siba, Getnet Alemu

• Publication - Working Paper

  Road Networks and Enterprise Performance in Ethiopia: Evidence from the Road Sector Development Program (Working Paper)

  1 Sep 2012 | Admasu Shiferaw, Måns Söderbom, Eyerusalem Siba, Getnet Alemu

  
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• Project

  Road Infrastructure and Firm Level Productivity Dynamics in Ethiopia

  High transport cost is one of the major constraints of Africa’s competitiveness in the world market and economic growth. The Ethiopian government has made road sector development central in its development strategy and implemented two large-scale road sector development programs during 1997-2009. During this period, the road density per 1000 km2 has grown by more than 70%...

  1 May 2011 | Admasu Shiferaw, Måns Söderbom, Eyerusalem Siba, Getnet Alemu