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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 …

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Offshoring within South African manufacturing firms : an analysis of the labour market effects

Pretorius, Anmar; Bezuidenhout, Carli; Matthee, Marianne; … - 2019

In South Africa, the manufacturing sector -- important for growth and employment creation -- has shown declining growth, poor productivity performance, decreased labour demand, and increased imports of intermediate goods (offshoring activities). Offshoring influences jobs and wages differently...

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Labour demand and the distribution of wages in South African manufacturing exporters

Matthee, Marianne; Rankin, Neil; Bezuidenhout, Carli - 2017

This paper contributes to the understanding of the linkages between exporting, labour demand, and wages in South Africa. We disentangle labour market differences between exporters and non-exporters and find that exporters employ more people and pay higher wages. Given these higher wages we...

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Wage growth and inequality in urban China 1988-2013

Gustafsson, Björn; Wan, Haiyuan - 2018

We investigate the evolution of wage levels, wage inequality, and wage determinants among urban residents in China using China Household Income Project data from 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013. Average wage grew impressively between each pair of years. Wage inequality had long been on the...

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Schooling inequality, returns to schooling, and earnings inequality : evidence from Brazil and South Africa

Lam, David; Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2015

Human capital models imply that both the distribution of education and returns to education affect earnings inequality. Decomposition of these 'quantity' and 'price' components have been important in understanding changes in earnings inequality in developed and developing countries. This paper...

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Sheepskin effects and heterogenous wage-setting behaviour : evidence from Mozambique

Jaeger, David A.; Jones, Sam - 2024

Using a unique panel survey of final-year undergraduates at six of the largest universities in Mozambique, we study the wage premium associated with completing an undergraduate degree. Conditional on a very rich set of controls, including pre-degree earnings, objective measures of ability, and...

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Returns to education and wage inequality in Namibia : a gendered analysis

Samahiya, Obrein Muine; Wirba, Ebenezer Lemven - 2023

This paper estimates the returns to education and their implications for wage inequality using data from the 2015/16 Namibia Income and Expenditure Survey. The paper employs recentred influence function regression to analyse the impact of education across the wage distribution and uses a...

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Gender differences in formal wage employment in urban Tanzania

Opoku, Kwadwo; Mugizi, Francisco M. P.; Boahen, Emmanuel Adu - 2021

This paper uses the latest Tanzania labour force survey-the Integrated Labour Force Survey-and a censored bivariate … Tanzania. Our findings indicate that, compared to men, women are less likely to participate in the labour market and less … likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania …

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Misinformed, mismatched, or misled? : explaining the gap between expected and realized graduate earnings in Mozambique

Jones, Sam; Santos, Ricardo; Xirinda, Gimelgo - 2020

Inaccurate expectations of future wages are found in many contexts. Yet, existing studies overwhelmingly refer to high-income countries, and there is little evidence regarding the sources of expectational errors. Based on a longitudinal survey of graduates from the six largest universities in...

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Earnings inequality in the Brazilian formal sector : the role of firms, education, and top incomes 1994-2015

Neri, Marcelo Cortes; Machado, Cecilia; Pinho Neto, … - 2018

This paper documents the evolution and the determinants of earnings inequality in the Brazilian formal sector from 1994 to 2015, using establishment level data. In 2015, schooling explained 33 per cent of overall inequality. Firm-specific effects explain 65 per cent of total inequality level and...

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