Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy …

look at later outcomes, including literacy, dropout rates, college enrolment, employability and earnings. While we do not … confirm previous results that tracking reinforces family background effects on literacy, we do confirm our view when looking … effects are stronger when tracking starts earlier. We reconcile the apparently contrasting results on literacy, educational …

This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the … linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique cross-country data on literacy scores with … information on the linguistic distance between languages, gaps in literacy test scores are estimated. Linguistically distant …

literacy as the ability to productively use written information. Significant effects are found for developed and developing … countries, leading on an aggregated macro level to a positive relationship between literacy and economic development. (2) The …

We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. – countries that represent a … wide range of literacy outcomes – using data from the 1994 and 2003 International Adult Literacy Surveys. In cross …-sectional data there is a weak negative partial relationship between literacy skills and age. However, this relationship could …

education on labour force participation and on unemployment can be attributed to literacy and numeracy (the indirect effect) and … suggest that education is a value added process in which skills, including literacy and numeracy, are improved and that these …This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market …

effect of upbringing is mainly responsible for the inter-generational relationship in literacy, while genetic effects seem …

exposed children completing one-half year less education representing an 18.3 percent decline. The effect is robust to …

demografisch bedingt rückläufigen Humankapitalressourcen ist eine tatkräftige Bildungspolitik von großer Bedeutung. Sie muss durch …

We explore a potential source of human capital spatial disparities: the unequal access to tertiary education caused by …