-Saharan African countries (SSAs), particularly Ghana. The weakness in the link between education and the needed skill by the industry … new evidence on the effect of education and skill-language, computer and numeracy skills-on unemployment duration in Ghana … employs Cox's Proportional Hazard Model to examine the effect of education, language, computer and numeracy skill on …

education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … to education by 0.005 percentage points. This implies that higher skilled employees are better sheltered from labour … regional unemployment can in addition almost fully explain the observed large differences in regional returns to education. We …