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 … education on labour force participation and on unemployment can be attributed to literacy and numeracy (the indirect effect) and …

between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey …

between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey …

between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey …

While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and …

Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … complementarity between language skills and both schooling and preimmigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the official … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …

of schooling typical for a given occupation. The return to usual years of schooling across different occupations is found …

support this empirical finding. Yet, the standard approach to the estimation of schooling returns does not account for this … commonly used static-model estimators of schooling coefficients are subject to an omitted-variable bias which can be named …

This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings … Census of the United States. Based on the average (mean or mode) level of schooling in their occupation, the schooling of the …. Immigrants have a wider variance in schooling, with an especially large proportion undereducated given the average schooling …

schooling that are above that which is usual for a worker's occupation are associated with very low increases in earnings … schooling serves as a pathway to occupational attainment, earnings appear to be more closely linked to a worker's occupation … than to the individual's level of schooling. …