In this paper we document the impact of education levels on labour market outcomes from 1994 to 2010 using national … household survey data. We show that higher levels of education are strongly rewarded in the labour market in terms of earnings … in the reward to education level are evident for Africans versus the overall population, between urban and rural areas …

In this paper we include measures of school quality in regressions determining the labour market premiums to education … proxies for education quality. We find that the employment and earnings premiums to education level are robust to the … earnings, controlling for education level. Increasing the matric exemption score by 10 percentage points increases earnings, on …

of the four potential drivers of this puzzle, namely competition, education, labour market flexibility and the size of … facteurs potentiels de ce puzzle, à savoir la concurrence, l'éducation, la flexibilité du marché du travail et la taille du …

complementarities. Over the longer term, improvements in basic education will be key to reducing the excess supply of less … des complémentarités. À plus long terme, une amélioration de l’éducation de base sera déterminante pour la réduction de l …