survey, this paper examines internal migration in Ethiopia, focusing on the linkages among internal migration, education and … issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the 2001 Ethiopia Child Labor Survey, a nationally representative household … wages. The results suggest that migrants are better educated and obtain higher wages than non-migrants, controlling for …

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 …

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 …

overperformance is due to female refugee immigrants, who have-relative to their endowment-higher wages than comparable native …

regarding human capital investment are no longer exclusively about the quantity of education, but rather the type of education … this premise in mind, this paper aims to estimate the effect of the quality of this education-occupation job match on … workers' wages and to explore the factors that contribute to the existence of such mismatch among workers with higher …

This paper employs Recentered Influence Function (RIF) regressions to examine the distributional effect of education on …. Taking into consideration the pay period of the workers, the paper investigates how education affects earnings at various … points of the earnings distribution; how education affects earnings inequality; and how much of the gender gap in earnings …

-specific accounts sometimes offered (wage liberalization, border opening, increased quality of education). But we find some support for … institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …