Vittorio Bassi
Vittorio Bassi is the Lead Academic for IGC Uganda.
He is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California and his primary research interests are in labour markets and productivity in developing countries.
Content by Vittorio Bassi
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Publication - Policy Brief
Understanding productivity dispersion: Evidence from a new survey of manufacturing firms in Uganda
There are large productivity differences across firms in developing countries, even within the same sector and region. Understanding what contributes to such differences in productivity is important for designing policies to help low productivity firms grow. This project implemented a representative survey of over 1,000 manufacturing firms in Uganda to quantify...
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Project
Understanding productivity dispersion: Evidence from a new survey of manufacturing firms in Uganda
Differences in income per capita across countries are mostly accounted for by differences in aggregate total factor productivity (Hall and Jones, 1999; Caselli, 2005). These differences are also present at the firm level, as firms in less developed countries have, on average, much lower labour productivity. However, there is substantial productivity dispersion within...
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Project
The long-term impact of vocational training and job search assistance for unemployed youth: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda
Youth unemployment and underemployment are key policy challenges in developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where 60% of the population is below the age of 25 and where it is expected to generate one million new unemployed in 2018 alone. This project seeks to provide new evidence on the effectiveness of active labour market policies in improving youth...
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Publication - Project Report
Understanding productivity dispersion: Evidence from a new survey of manufacturing firms in Uganda
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Project
Firm-level technology adoption and investment in training
In developing countries, firms produce using technologies farther away from the frontier, and workers have lower education and formal training. It has long been argued that skills and technology are complementary (see, for example, Foster and Rosenzweig 1996). As a result, the lower skill endowment of workers may reduce the incentives of firms to invest in technology, and...