This study is part of a six-country project coordinated by the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) on Youth, Employment, and Skills (YES) in Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Ethiopia, Niger, Rwanda, and Uganda. The study on Uganda’s case draws out implications for the future of work considering the fast-evolving…
This study examines the firm level drivers of employment growth in East Africa in which they are categorized as firm specific, entrepreneur specific and business environment characteristics. Using a cross-sectional World Bank Enterprise survey dataset and pooled Ordinary Least Squares estimation (OLS), the results indicate that; (1) employment…