the pattern is similar for nativeborn and foreignbom workers although the latter appear to benefit from considerably higher returns to tertiary education greater accra the region of the capital had an average monthly wage in the medium range while having the highest levels of education both for ghanaian and foreignbom individuals and years respectively northern brong ahafo and eastern regions demonstrate the highest rates of poverty cooke et al overall the pattern suggests that average educational attainment is positively linked with average real wages for foreignborn workers while the opposite is true for nativeborn workers source authors own work based on ghana statistical service mincertype regressions are undertaken to analyse what characteristics cause the discrepancies in real monthly wages between the foreign and nativeborn workers see table