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Impact of Education on Inequality Across the Wage Distribution Profile in Cameroon, 2005-10

Francis Menjo Baye

No wp-2015-014, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education increased monotonically. Yet incremental returns were registered on average and up to the 25th percentile making the full returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles.

Keywords: Education; Equality and inequality; Income distribution; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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