earnings in East Africa, using data from the Living Standards and Measurement Study (LSMS) for Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda … in earnings were found for Tanzania and Uganda but not for Malawi. The decomposition results suggest that gender … differences in educational attainment significantly explain the gender wage gap for Tanzania and Uganda. The paper recommends …

Surveys of Tanzania and Ghana for 2004-2006. We investigate and compare heterogeneity in earnings determinants among self … and secondary levels of education are inequality-reducing among workers in Tanzania but this is not the case in Ghana …. Tertiary education on the other hand is found to widen earnings inequality in both Tanzania and Ghana. …

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 …