Private Returns to Education for Wage-employees and the Self-employed in Uganda

Susan Namirembe Kavuma, Oliver Morrissey and Richard Upward

No wp-2015-021, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Panel analysis; Wage differentials; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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