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| Title: | Private returns on education in Ghana: estimating the effects of education on employability in Ghana |
| Author: | Asafu-Adjaye, Prince |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Periodical: | African Sociological Review (ISSN 1027-4332) |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 120-138 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ghana |
| Subjects: | education employment |
| External link: | https://www.ajol.info/index.php/asr/article/view/87629 |
| Abstract: | It has been argued that the private returns on education have diminished in African countries in the last few decades. By the end of the 1980s, the economic crisis and cuts in public expenditure in most African States meant that labour market opportunities for educated youth have become constrained. This article draws on data from the latest Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 5), conducted in 2005/2006, to assess the effects of education on employability in Ghana. The analysis shows that, in general, education has a positive effect on the probability of being employed in Ghana. Primary education, secondary education and tertiary education have statistically significant positive effects on employment. The highest private return on education in terms of employment is at the tertiary level. In addition to education, other determinants of employment in Ghana include age, location and sex. Youth suffers higher unemployment compared with other age cohorts, urban location has a negative effect on the probability of being employed, and men are 6.4 percent more likely to be employed than women. The article concludes that it is important that efforts are made to encourage post-secondary education in the country. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
