Quality jobs or mass employment
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Date
1999-10-04
Authors
Boateng, Kwabia
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Publisher
African Economic Research consortium
Abstract
The general objective of the study is to explain the apparent failure of employment in the
Ghanaian labour market under SAP/ERP by evaluating changes in the qualitative
distribution of labour demand, based on trends in advertised job vacancies from 1981 to
1995. The results indicate a significant (25%) increase in the demand for high-skill labour
relative to low-skill labour in the ERP/SAP period, compared with pre-ERP/SAP period.
Using decomposition techniques it is found that 51.2% of the increase in demand for
high-skill labour is explained by changes in skill composition and 48.8% by changes in
sectoral composition of jobs. The policy implication is that improvement in employment
performance in Ghana will require additional investments in skill training and a keener
effort to enhance occupational mobility.