An employment and output projection model for Kenya and Nairobi

This paper reports on a simulation model which is designed to predict certain characteristics of employment and output for Kenya and Nairobi. The model has been used to make a 1985 employment projection for the City of Nairobi, however for this paper the model tests the employment implications of a variety of different combinations of assumptions about economic structure and future changes in exogenous variables, e.g. population growth