Task organization, human capital and wages in Moroccan exporting firms

Type Report
Title Task organization, human capital and wages in Moroccan exporting firms
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2008
URL http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ema:worpap:2008-39
Abstract
We conduct a case study of the linkages of task organization, human capital accumulation and wages in Morocco, using matched worker-firm data for Electrical-mechanical and Textile-clothing industries. In order to integrate task organization into the interacting processes of workers’ training and remunerations, we use a recursive model, which is not rejected by our estimates: task organization influences on-the-job training that affects wages. Beyond sector and gender determinants, assignment of workers to tasks and onthe- job training is found to depend on former education and work experience in a broad sense. Meanwhile, participation in on-the-job training is stimulated by being assigned to a team, especially of textile sector and for well educated workers. Finally, task organization and on-the-job training are found to affect wages.

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