Working paper
Does doing an apprenticeship pay off?
- Alternative title:
- Evidence from Ghana
- Abstract:
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In Ghana there is a highly developed apprenticeship system where young men and women undertake sector-specific private training, which yields skills used primarily in the informal sector. In this paper we use a 2006 urban based household survey with detailed questions on the background, training and earnings of workers in both wage and self-employment to ask whether apprenticeship pays off. We show that apprenticeship is by far the most important institution providing training and is undertak...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Not peer reviewed
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+ "Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)", "Department for International Development (DfID)"
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Monk, C
+ "Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)", "Department for International Development (DfID)"
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Funding agency for:
Sandefur, J
Bibliographic Details
- Series:
- CSAE working paper series
- Place of publication:
- http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers/main-wps.html
- Publication date:
- 2008-01-01
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:2581
- Deposit date:
- 2009-02-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Courtney Monk, Justin Sandefur & Francis Teal
- Copyright date:
- 2008
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