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Home | Events Archive | A New Employer in Town: Assessing the Impact of MNEs on Ghanaian Labour Markets
Research Master Pre-Defense

A New Employer in Town: Assessing the Impact of MNEs on Ghanaian Labour Markets

  • Location
    Roeterseilandcampus UvA-REC E5.07
    Amsterdam
  • Date and time

    June 23, 2026
    14:00 - 16:00

I present novel empirical evidence on the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on Ghanaian labour markets. To rationalise these findings and compute policy relevant counterfactuals, I build a search and match model of the Ghanaian economy. In this model, ex-ante homogenous workers may be in home production, self employment, or earning a wage. There is random search in the first two sectors. Firms are heterogeneous in productivity and compete for workers and production on the same market of multinationals, which draw productivity from a different distribution.