Jobs and skills in Ghana : what types of jobs have been created and where?

The paper addresses what types of jobs have been created in the economy and what has driven the increases in incomes over a fifteen-year period (1991-2005). There is a pattern across all levels of education that employment in both the private informal and formal sectors has been growing in relative importance while work in the rural sector has been declining. Findings show there was some shift from lower to higher paying occupations. Increases in income were uniformly high across all sectors and particularly benefited the unskilled. It is as yet unclear why unskilled labour rates rose so rapidly