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Education, Skill, and Earnings: Further Evidence from Ghana

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  • Charles Godfred Ackah
  • Charles Adjasi
  • Festus Turkson
  • Adjoa Acquah

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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 more than triples from primary to secondary level or higher--an indication of a rather strong convex relationship. The results point to the importance of higher education in productivity.

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  • Charles Godfred Ackah & Charles Adjasi & Festus Turkson & Adjoa Acquah, 2014. "Education, Skill, and Earnings: Further Evidence from Ghana," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2014-073, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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