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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 … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …
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/or better education. These groups are characterized by higher relative wages as well as higher within-group wage inequality …
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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled migration is worrisome, many...
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measured in terms of education, is often regarded as a waste of human capital. Such discussions, however, ignore the imperfect …
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compulsory schooling at ages 16-17, young men in Tajikistan are forsaking professional education because of opportunities to … to professional education in migrant-sending Tajikistan. …
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