This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education …

proposed option for youth in economies with limited wage employment. Analysing survey data on 2,036 tertiary graduates in Ghana …We examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly …, we find that males have a stronger preference for self-employment. This is mostly explained by differences in educational …

How have economic development, employment, and labour markets in Asian countries interacted since the publication of … Myrdal's Asian Drama? Myrdal rejected, the western approach to and definition of employment and emphasized the role of … "informal" employment, but he underestimated the effects of the Lewisian development process. In fast-growing countries with …

high initial income inequality. The neglect of concern for employment and inequality in the formulation of the Millennium … Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 is noted; the addition of a goal for full employment in a reformulation of the MDGs in 2005 did … not lead to a change in focus in official development assistance (ODA). If the growing concern for employment and …