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 …

survey, this paper examines internal migration in Ethiopia, focusing on the linkages among internal migration, education and … wages. The results suggest that migrants are better educated and obtain higher wages than non-migrants, controlling for … other factors (including education), and also obtain higher returns to their education. In other words, the more educated …

the determinants of the least squares bias of the wage return to education. We find that disregarding individual fixed …

1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …

empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on the education and labor market outcomes … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …

empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on education and labor market outcomes of … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …

, wages are highest for formal workers and lowest for lower-tier informal jobs. The proportion of formal workers who maintain … move up the wage ladder. Education plays an important role, as it increases the probability of transitioning into a better … job and, within informality, the chance of better wages. …

This paper examines the effect of wage variation on individual wages. The results reveal that wage variation by … educational classifications positively affects wages, while the skewness has a negative effect. As has been referred in previous … results show that the impact of wage-variation on wages is not reasonably described by a single parameter for all individuals …

relation with wages for both women and men. The negative relation between housework time and wages is not likely to arise from … between housework and wages appears in most occupations, including professional and managerial occupations. The connection of …

distribution of personal labor earnings. The aim is to review what is known about the contribution of differences in relative wages …