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 … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …

regarding human capital investment are no longer exclusively about the quantity of education, but rather the type of education … this premise in mind, this paper aims to estimate the effect of the quality of this education-occupation job match on … education (college or more). Using data from the American Community Survey 2010-16, we construct two indices that measure the …

set of individual characteristics (e.g., education, age, literacy and numeracy skills). Our results indicate that female …

and that this gap takes its largest value for managers with tertiary education or more. In terms of their number of …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …