Roads and Jobs in Ethiopia
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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Does improving roads affect jobs and
structural transformation A novel geocoded data set covering
the universe of Ethiopian roads matched with individual data
allows the relationship between improvements in road
infrastructure and labor-market outcomes over the 1994–2013
period to be identified. At the district level, greater
market access due to better roads correlates with the
process of structural transformation in Ethiopia.
Improvements in market access are related to reductions in
the share of agricultural workers and increases in that of
workers in the services sector, but not in manufacturing.
Heterogeneity in this relationship exists across industries,
gender, education level, and age cohorts. Patterns of
internal migration and changes in economic opportunities can
help rationalize these findings.
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STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION, JOBS, ROADS, ETHIOPIA