earnings in seven major West African cities. Our results show that although education does not always guard against … unemployment, it does increase individual earnings in Abidjan, Bamako, Cotonou, Dakar, Lome, Niamey and Ouagadougou and opens the … convex returns to education in all the cities considered. Besides, not controlling for the endogeneity of education leads to …

employment. The main tested assumption is that high levels of employment vulnerability could be compensated by greater earnings … at least one criterion. The results show that the average impact of vulnerability on earnings is generally negative for … in the informal sector, in the upper tail of the earnings distribution, and particularly in the circumstance of visible …

(english) The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of education on labor market entry, particularly on earnings … of education on entry into various segments of the labor market, particularly on activity generated earnings, we directly … address issues related to sample selection (related to the endogenous distribution among sectors) and the endogeneity of the …

compensating mechanism is mainly seen in the informal sector, in the upper tail of the earnings distribution and particularly in …