Task Organization, Human Capital and Wages in Moroccan Exporting Firms

Christophe Muller (1) , Christophe J. Nordman (2, 3)

1 GREQAM - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille
2 DIAL - Développement, institutions et analyses de long terme
3 IZA

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 assume 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 on-the-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.

Mots clés: wages; on-the-job training; Morocco; human capital; task organization

Domaines: Economies et finances

Christophe Muller, Christophe J. Nordman. Task Organization, Human Capital and Wages in Moroccan Exporting Firms. 2013. ⟨halshs-00854522⟩