Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Plan of the Book -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 Labor Markets and their Development in sub-Saharan Africa -- 2 Labor Market Institutions in Africa -- Part II: Wage and Employment Trends in the Formal Sector -- 3 Trends in Manufacturing Wages in the Sixties -- 4 Wage Trends in Recent Decades -- 5 Trends in Wages, Wage Shares and Value Added in Manufacturing -- Appendices to Part II -- Part III: The Rural-Urban Wage Gap in Africa -- 6 The Theory of Rural-Urban Wage Gap in Africa -- 7 The Ratio of the Earnings of Wage Labor in Agriculture and Manufacturing -- 8 The Evolution of Labor Markets and the Rural-Urban Earnings Gap in Kenya -- 9 The Evolution of Labor Markets and the Rural-Urban Earnings Gap in Ghana -- 10 The Evolution of Labor Markets and the Rural-Urban Earnings Gap in Other Countries -- Conclusion to Part III -- Part IV: Impact of Wage Decline -- Introduction -- 11 Change in Earnings over the Lifetime of Workers -- 12 The Impact of the Wage Decline on Competitiveness in African Manufacturing: A Case Study of Kenya -- Part V: The Structure of Labor Markets in African Manufacturing -- Introduction -- 13 The Structure of the Labor Force and of Earnings -- 14 Determinants of Earnings of Manufacturing Workers -- 15 Wage Difference by Size of Firm: An Extended Analysis -- Appendix to Part V -- Part VI: Conclusions -- 16 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index