- Subtitle:
- Evidence from Tanzania
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In this paper we ask what can account for the continuing strong preference for academic education in Africa where the level of development is so low and there are few wage jobs and which form of educational investment, the academic or vocational, is most profitable. We argue that the answers to these questions are linked through the shape of the earnings function and the importance of firm effects. High levels of academic education have far higher returns than those available either from voca...
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- Funding agency for:
- Francis Teal
- Series:
- CSAE working paper series
- Publication date:
- 2008-01-01
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- Local pid:
- ora:2574
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- English
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- Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) and Godius Kahyarara & Francis Teal
- Copyright date:
- 2008
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The returns to vocational training and academic education
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