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Education, skills, and labor market outcomes: evidence from Ghana
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Abstract This paper investigates the education-earnings relationship in Ghana, drawing on the Ghana Living Standards Survey for 1998-99. The analysis has three main goals: to examine the labor market returns to education amongst wage-employed, self-employed and agricultural workers; to examine the labor mark... mehr
This paper investigates the education-earnings relationship in Ghana, drawing on the Ghana Living Standards Survey for 1998-99. The analysis has three main goals: to examine the labor market returns to education amongst wage-employed, self-employed and agricultural workers; to examine the labor market returns to literacy and numeracy skills for these categories of workers; and to analyze the pattern of returns to education along the earnings distribution. We also investigate the shape of the education-earnings relationship. The analysis is done separately by gender and age group, and attempts to address the usual biases when estimating returns to education.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bildung; Arbeitsmarkt; geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren; Ghana; Kompetenz; Bildungsertrag; Einkommen; Berufsbildung; Einkommensverteilung; Afrika
Klassifikation
Bildungswesen quartärer Bereich, Berufsbildung
Arbeitsmarktforschung
Methode
empirisch
Freie Schlagwörter
education; earnings; skills; labour market
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2007
Erscheinungsort
Oxford
Seitenangabe
44 S.
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet