The role of the firm in worker wage dispersion: an analysis of the Ghanaian manufacturing sector

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 1 Descriptive statistics

	All firms	Private domestic	Any foreign
	(1)	(2)	(3)
Number of workers	74.50	34.53	194.41
Number of skilled workers	13.69	6.85	35.01
Years of education of average worker	10.02	9.65	10.99
Potential experience of average worker	15.26	6.85	35.01
Age of average worker (in years)	32.60	30.11	39.32
Weekly hours worked by average worker	45.90	46.87	43.56
Located in Accra (=1 if yes)	0.59	0.53	0.70
Log annual wage bills	16.58	15.77	18.68
Log real output	17.36	16.69	19.41
Exports (=1 if yes)	0.33	0.29	0.46
Log replacement value of plants and machinery	17.67	16.65	20.80
Percentage of inputs imported	22.03	19.13	32.56
Observations (firm × years)	2400	1464	804

Notes: Data comes from the CSAE-RPED database as discussed in the data section. Any foreign corresponds to firms partially or wholly owned by foreigners. Private domestic refers to firms owned and managed by private Ghanaian resident entrepreneurs. Total observations are 2400; for private domestic, it is 1464; and for foreign owned, it is 804. Remaining 132 are observations for state firms. All figures are means computed from plant-level database of 200 firms overall for 12 years