Unemployment is often cited as a measure of the low employment content of Ghana's strong growth performance over the past three decades. The paper presents evidence to suggest that employment growth in Ghana continues to trail economic growth due to high growth of low employment generating...

The study sets out to investigate the factors that influence the occupational choice decision of workers in Ghana to ascertain the underlying reasons underpinning occupational distribution. From an estimated multinomial logit regression model based on a nationally representative household...

This paper makes an attempt to investigate the extent of gender segregation in the Ghanaian labour market using widely used indexes. An assessment of gender differences in the labour market points to a relatively high, but rapidly declining female labour force participation and employment rates...

The paper attempts to rekindle the debate of low human capital base as a bane of Africa's economic transformation. The paper attributes developmental gap between Africa and the rest of the world to its relatively weak human capital base. Low public investment in education culminating in limited...

The main thrust of the paper is to assess the revenue implication of the introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) as a better option over sales tax in Ghana. An overview of tax revenue between 1984 and 2010 suggests significant improvement in consumption tax revenue since 1999 when VAT was...

The success of individuals in securing employment requires a significant search effort. This article presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of job search intensity among a cross-section of workers in Accra, Ghana. Based on a sample of 404 workers drawn from 100 formal sector firms in...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>Unemployment is often cited as a measure of the low employment content of Ghana's strong growth performance over the past three decades. The paper presents evidence to suggest that employment growth in Ghana continues to trail economic growth due to high growth...</p>

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of education on migration decisions focusing on rural and urban in-migrants by comparing the 2005/2006 and 2012/2013 rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS5 and GLSS6). After correcting for selectivity bias, the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish the concept of unemployment defined by the International Labour Organisation appears to be too narrow within the context of many African countries including Ghana. This phenomenon tends to put many jobless adults into the discouraged worker...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the changing pattern and direction of sex segregation of occupation as a measure of unbalanced distribution of occupation by sex in Ghana between 1960 and 2010, identify the sources of the changes and show whether female-male earnings difference...