This article analyzes the determinants of literacy and earnings in Ghana. It links literacy and earnings with a variety of factors, including age, gender, family educational background, distance to school, and income. Literacy and age are negatively correlated, suggesting that efforts at...

The link between poverty and child labor has traditionally been regarded a well established fact. Recent research, however, has questioned the validity of this link, claiming that poverty is not a main determinant of child labor. Starting from a premise that child labor is necessarily harmful,...

This paper analyzes the earnings determinants in the Ghanian manufacturing industries, focussing on the impact of unions in terms of the so-called "union relative wage effect" and the possible asymmetries of this impact across the earnings distribution. We find evidence of a union relative wage...