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Stepping Up Skills in Urban Ghana : Snapshot of the STEP Skills Measurement Survey

Arnold, Tamara; Darvas, Peter; Favara, Marta - 2017

other development partners and nongovernmental agencies and carried out in more than 14 countries globally. In Ghana, the … Ghana’s Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research (ISSER), the Ministry of Education, the Council for … Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), and the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) …

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Stepping Up Skills in Urban Ghana : Snapshot of the STEP Skills Measurement Survey

Darvas, Peter - 2017

other development partners and nongovernmental agencies and carried out in more than 14 countries globally. In Ghana, the … Ghana's Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research (ISSER), the Ministry of Education, the Council for … Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), and the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) …

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Field choice, skill specificity, and labor market disruptions

Smeets, Valerie; Tian, Lin; Traiberman, Sharon - 2025

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Lifecycle wages and human capital investments : selection and missing data

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Roux, Sébastien - 2025

We derive wage equations with individual specific coefficients from a structural model of human capital investment over the life cycle. This model allows for interruptions in labour market participation and deals with missing data and attrition problems. We propose a new framework that deals...

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Skill premium and technological change in the very long run : 1300-1914

Luo, Rui - 2017

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Family-friendly and human-capital-based immigration policy : Shifting the focus from immigrants’ initial earnings to their propensity to invest in human capital

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2017

Immigrants who start with low earnings, such as family-based immigrants, experience higher earnings growth than immigrants who are recruited for specific jobs (employment-based immigrants). This occurs because family-based immigrants with lower initial earnings invest in human capital at higher...

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Optimal investment in human capital under migration uncertainty

Siyahhan, Baran; Ghoddusi, Hamed - In: Review of international economics 30 (2022) 2, pp. 422-449

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Is the growing skill premium a purely metropolitan issue?

Chung, Chul (contributor); Clark, Jeremy (contributor); … - 2008

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Beyond qualifications : returns to cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Colombia

Acosta, Pablo; Muller, Noël; Sarzosa, Miguel - 2015

This paper examines the relationship between individuals' skills and labor market outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia's urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper finds that cognitive skills (aptitudes to perform mental tasks such as comprehension or reasoning)...

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Agglomeration and job matching among college graduates

Abel, Jaison R.; Deitz, Richard - In: Regional science & urban economics 51 (2015), pp. 14-24

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