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dc.contributor.authorMonk, Courtenayde
dc.contributor.authorSandefur, Justinde
dc.contributor.authorTeal, Francisde
dc.date.accessioned2010-01-19T15:51:00Zde
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-29T22:25:34Z
dc.date.available2012-08-29T22:25:34Z
dc.date.issued2008de
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/6863
dc.description.abstractIn Ghana there is a highly developed apprenticeship system where young men and women undertake sector-specific private training, which yields skills used primarily in the informal sector. In this paper we use a 2006 urban based household survey with detailed questions on the background, training and earnings of workers in both wage and self-employment to ask whether apprenticeship pays off. We show that apprenticeship is by far the most important institution providing training and is undertaken primarily by those with junior high school or lower levels of education. The summary statistics indicate that those who have done an apprenticeship earn much less than those who have not. This suggests that endogenous selection into the apprenticeship system is important, and we take several measures to address this issue. We find a significant amount of heterogeneity in the returns to apprenticeship across education. Our most conservative estimates imply that for currently employed people, who did apprenticeships but have no formal education, the training increases their earnings by 50%. However this declines as education levels rise. We argue that our results are consistent with those who enter apprenticeship with no education having higher ability than those who enter with more education.en
dc.languageende
dc.subject.ddcWirtschaftde
dc.subject.ddcSociology & anthropologyen
dc.subject.ddcEconomicsen
dc.subject.ddcBildung und Erziehungde
dc.subject.ddcEducationen
dc.subject.ddcSoziologie, Anthropologiede
dc.subject.otherapprenticeship; Africa; treatment; control function; JEL Classification Codes O12, J24
dc.titleDoes doing an apprenticeship pay off? Evidence from Ghanaen
dc.description.reviewbegutachtetde
dc.description.reviewrevieweden
dc.source.volume12de
dc.publisher.countryGBR
dc.publisher.cityCambridgede
dc.source.seriesRECOUP Working Papersde
dc.subject.classozVocational Training, Adult Educationen
dc.subject.classozEntwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologiede
dc.subject.classozSociology of Developing Countries, Developmental Sociologyen
dc.subject.classozArbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschungde
dc.subject.classozEmployment Researchen
dc.subject.classozBildungswesen quartärer Bereich, Berufsbildungde
dc.subject.thesozArbeitsmarktde
dc.subject.thesozbenefit of vocational trainingen
dc.subject.thesoztraining (sports)en
dc.subject.thesozAusbildungsertragde
dc.subject.thesozgeschlechtsspezifische Faktorende
dc.subject.thesozTrainingde
dc.subject.thesozBildungsbeteiligungde
dc.subject.thesozGhanade
dc.subject.thesozBildungswesende
dc.subject.thesoztrainingen
dc.subject.thesozAusbildungde
dc.subject.thesozGhanaen
dc.subject.thesozvocational educationen
dc.subject.thesozBerufsbildungde
dc.subject.thesozEntwicklungslandde
dc.subject.thesozeducation systemen
dc.subject.thesozgender-specific factorsen
dc.subject.thesozWestafrikade
dc.subject.thesozparticipation in educationen
dc.subject.thesozWest Africaen
dc.subject.thesozdeveloping countryen
dc.subject.thesozlabor marketen
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-68637de
dc.date.modified2010-02-02T11:32:00Zde
dc.rights.licenceCreative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitungde
dc.rights.licenceCreative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Worksen
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ssoar.gesis.collectionSOLIS;ADISde
ssoar.contributor.institutionEconomics Department, University of Oxford, UKde
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dc.source.pageinfo37
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internal.identifier.classoz10211
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dc.contributor.corporateeditorUniversity of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP)de
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dc.subject.methodsempirischde
dc.subject.methodsempiricalen
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