Education, skills, and labor market outcomes : evidence from Ghana (English)

In a wide-ranging paper on education, incomes, poverty, and inequality, teal (2001) estimates the returns to education in Ghana, using four waves of data from 1988 to 1999. Unlike much of the international literature, this study estimates the returns to education not only in wage employment, but also in the two other major occupations-agriculture (which employed 64 percent of the labor force in 1998-99) and self-employment. Pooling the four rounds...

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Kingdon,Geeta Gandhi;

Soderbom,Mans Martin;
Document Date
2008/05/01
Document Type
Working Paper (Numbered Series)
Report Number
44242
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Ghana,
Region
Western and Central Africa,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Education, skills, and labor market outcomes : evidence from Ghana
Keywords
return to education

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Kingdon,Geeta Gandhi; Soderbom,Mans Martin.

Education, skills, and labor market outcomes : evidence from Ghana (English). Education working paper series ; no. 12 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/464731468031781560

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