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More than money: The critical role of management in educational aid effectiveness in Africa

Asare, Abigail Opokua - 2025

report the world's highest illiteracy rates, indicating potential inefficiencies in educational aid management. This paper … illiteracy, regardless of the quantity of aid or volume of aid disbursement. Meanwhile, projects managed in a sub …

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Effects of skills training on employment and livelihood outcomes: A randomized controlled trial with young women in Ghana

Frohnweiler, Sarah; Adongo, Charles A.; Beber, Bernd; … - 2024

(non-)employment outcomes in Ghana. Overall the program did not affect core labor market outcomes at the extensive … (employment) and intensive (hours of work, income) margin, but it (i) induced occupational sorting, with treated individuals more …-Practice-Ausbildungsprogramms auf Beschäftigung und Lebensbedingungen in Ghana. Insgesamt hatte das Programm keine Auswirkungen auf die zentralen …

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Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labor Market Success

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market outcomes of literacy, numeracy and educational attainment. The survey includes a range of literacy and numeracy variables that are highly inter-correlated. A ?general to specific?...

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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? On the relationship between basic skills and earnings

Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012

Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...

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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? On the relationship between basic skills and earnings

Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012

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Who gains from trade protection in Ghana: A household-level analysis?

Ackah, Charles; Morrissey, Oliver; Appleton, Simon - 2007

household income in Ghana. Tariff measures at the two-digit ISIC level are matched to Ghanaian household survey data for 1991 … that the effect of protection on income might not be uniform across households characterized by different skill levels …

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Risk Sharing in Labour Markets

Bigsten, Arne; Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; … - 2003

Empirical work in labour economics has focused on rent sharing as an explanation for the observed correlation in cross-sections between wages and profitability. The alternative explanation of risk sharing between workers and employers has not been tested. Using a unique panel data set for four...

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The determinants of earnings inequalities: Panel data evidence from South Africa

Kerr, Andrew; Teal, Francis J. - 2012

use the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study data from South Africa, which show extremely large average earnings …

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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

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