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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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
competence; education; income; income distribution; returns on education; Ghana; Africa; vocational education; gender-specific factors; labor market
Classification
Vocational Training, Adult Education
Labor Market Research
Method
empirical
Free Keywords
education; earnings; skills; labour market
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
City
Oxford
Page/Pages
44 p.
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution