| Abstract: | This paper uses cross-section data on incomes in the Eastern Region of Ghana to quantify differentials associated with employment or self-employment in different localities and occupations facing job seekers with various levels of formal education. The available information does not cover all the aspects of real wage differentials, but only cash receipts and imputed values of home-grown foodstuffs. Attempted is to indicate whether the observed differentials are under- or over-estimates of the true real differentials by taking account of the neglected elements of real income in a qualitative manner. As for some of the respondents the observed returns are not purely wage earnings but contain elements of profit on capital, for which separate data were not available; a distinction between profits and wage earnings would be necessary for assessing the relative attractiveness of different occupations and therefore the quantitative results presented are only indicative. Ref., notes, tables, figures. |
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