Learning by Doing: Skills and Jobs in Urban Ghana
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Learning by Doing: Skills and Jobs in Urban Ghana
This paper investigates the relationship between skills acquisition and job characteristics using a panel dataset of individuals in urban Ghana by analyzing on-the-job skills acquisition and exploring the link between mathematics skills and jobs which involve the handling of money. These mathematics skills are important, not only, in the workplace but also more generally. Survey respondents wer...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Development Studies
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0022-0388,1743-9140
DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2014.903248