Arbeitspapier
Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labor Market Success
This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market outcomes of literacy, numeracy and educational attainment. The survey includes a range of literacy and numeracy variables that are highly inter-correlated. A ?general to specific? approach identifies the most relevant literacy and numeracy variables. Including the others adds little explanatory power. Among males and females separately about half of the total effect of education on labour force participation and on unemployment can be attributed to literacy and numeracy (the indirect effect) and about half to the direct effect of education. There is apparently no indirect effect of labour market experience through literacy and numeracy on participation or unemployment. The direct and total effects of experience are the same. The findings suggest that education is a value added process in which skills, including literacy and numeracy, are improved and that these skills enhance labour market outcomes.
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Englisch
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 450
Analysis of Education
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
schooling
literacy
numeracy
earnings screening
Australia
Arbeitslosigkeit
Analphabetismus
Bildungsniveau
Erwerbstätigkeit
Schätzung
Australien
Lee, Yew Liang
Miller, Paul W.
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:24 MESZ
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Chiswick, Barry R.
- Lee, Yew Liang
- Miller, Paul W.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2002
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