set of individual characteristics (e.g., education, age, literacy and numeracy skills). Our results indicate that female …

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 … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and … heterogeneity both in terms of segregation and wage gaps across education levels, occupations, industries and sectors. Racial wage … decomposition techniques, this study furthermore provides evidence of large heterogeneity in returns to education and a shift in the …

We analyse wage differentials between Higher Education graduates in the UK, differentiating between polytechnic and … Higher Education Act of 1992. The reform changed the system of Higher Education by giving all polytechnics university status …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …