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Education, skill, and earnings : further evidence from Ghana
Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles Komla Delali; Turkson, … - 2014
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 … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337617
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Group-based inequalities : the case of Viet Nam
Hoai, Dang Thi Thu - 2017
/urban groups. While there has been an improvement in horizontal inequality in education, this paper shows little change in other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592927
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The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico : supply vs demand factors
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021
force participation over the period, led by increases in women's education and shifts in the occupational structure of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422678
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The gender gap, education, and the life cycle profile in the Brazilian formal labour market
Machado, Cecilia; Neri, Marcelo Cortes; Pinho Neto, … - 2018
education levels. We find that the gender earnings gap increases with the educational level. For instance, at 40 years of age …, women without high school degrees earned on average 28.8 per cent less than men with the same level of education and for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944803
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Informality, labour transitions, and the livelihoods of workers in Latin America
Maurizio, Roxana; Monsalvo, Ana Paula - 2021
move up the wage ladder. Education plays an important role, as it increases the probability of transitioning into a better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422660
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The impact of employment protection on the temporary employment services sector : evidence from South Africa using data from tax records
Cassim, Aalia - 2020
Attempts to regulate the temporary employment sector have had mixed results internationally. In South Africa, temporary employment was regulated in 2015 through amendments to the Labour Relations Act. This paper uses administrative data to examine the short-term impact of strengthening...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233721
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How large is the wage penalty in the labour broker sector? : evidence for South Africa using administrative data
Cassim, Aalia; Casale, Daniela - 2018
Public debate on the temporary employment services, or labour broker, sector in South Africa has focused on temporary workers' wages and benefits. Empirical research is limited: temporary employment services cannot be accurately identified in recent labour force surveys. In 2015, South Africa...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844129
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Earnings and employment microdata in South Africa
Kerr, Andrew; Wittenberg, Martin - 2019
Traditionally, analysts of the South African labour market have used household survey data to describe earnings and employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made available, which allows for comparisons and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012406
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The decline of the labour share in Mexico : 1990-2015
Ibarra-Niño, Carlos Alberto; Ros, Jaime - 2017
This paper studies the decline of the labour share in Mexico during the period 1990-2015. It calculates the wage share and alternative measures of the labour income share (which includes labour income of the self-employed) for the whole economy, the private business sector, and its major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777099
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Jobs, earnings, and routine-task occupational change in times of revolution : the Tunisian perspective
Marouani, Mohamed Ali; Le Minh, Phuong; Marshalian, Michelle - 2020
characterized by a decreasing earnings inequality following the fall of education premia, and an asymmetric wage polarization led by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405618