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Direct linkCarmichael, Fiona; Darko, Christian; Kanji, Shireen – Education Economics, 2021
Education is key to development strategies in Africa. We use overeducation and undereducation to analyse the effectiveness of education in preparing individuals for employment in Kenya and Ghana, using the Skills Towards Employment and Productivity Survey. Systematic differences in wages between matched, overeducated and undereducated workers hold…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Job Search Methods, Social Networks, Foreign Countries
Nsowah-Nuamah, Nicholas; Teal, Francis; Awoonor-Williams, Moses – Comparative Education, 2012
On the basis of official statistics, poverty has halved in Ghana over the period from 1991 to 2005. Our objective in this paper is to assess how far this fall was linked to the creation of better paying jobs and the increase in education. We find that earnings rose rapidly in the period from 1998 to 2005, by 64% for men and by 55% for women. While…
Descriptors: Evidence, Poverty, Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment
