Arbeitspapier

Private returns to education for wage-employees and the self-employed in Uganda

The paper investigates the differences in private marginal returns to education between wage-employees and the self-employed in Uganda, using the Mincerian framework with pooled regression models. We use a two-wave household panel to estimate homogenous and heterogeneous private returns to education for both worker types. The study finds similar marginal returns to an additional year of schooling for both worker types. Further, the study finds the returns to educational qualifications are convex for wage-employees and concave for the self-employed. With regard to heterogeneous returns to education, we employ quantile regression models and find returns to education decreasing with quantile for both worker types.

ISBN
978-92-9230-906-0
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2015/021

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Thema
returns to education
quantile regression

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kavuma, Susan Namirembe
Morrissey, Oliver
Upward, Richard
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2015

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2015/906-0
Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kavuma, Susan Namirembe
  • Morrissey, Oliver
  • Upward, Richard
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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