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Literacy, Skills and Welfare : Effects of Participation in Adult Literacy Programs
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Pörtner, Claus C. - 2011
This paper examines the effect of adult literacy program participation on household consumption in Ghana. The adult literacy programs in Ghana are of special interest since they are more comprehensive than standard literacy programs and incorporate many additional topics. We use community fixed...
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Fiktion und Widersprüche : eine soziologische Analyse zu Basisbildung in Österreich
Pessl, Gabriele; Metzler, Barbara - 2023
respective stereotypes from the public, who is generally badly informed about this issue? How is knowledge on illiteracy … adding to the scientific discourse on illiteracy and people with few reading and writing skills. A second target was to … the public is not aware of illiteracy in Austria, or its existence is even neglected. …
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Making sense of the shapes : what do we know about literacy learning in adulthood?
Aker, Jenny C.; Berry, James; Sawyer, Melita - 2023
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What is the economic value of literacy and numeracy? : basic skills in literacy and numeracy are essential for success in the labor market
Vignoles, Anna - 2016
Even in OECD countries, where an increasing proportion of the workforce has a university degree, the value of basic skills in literacy and numeracy remains high. Indeed, in some countries the return for such skills, in the form of higher wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in...
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What is the economic value of literacy and numeracy? : basic skills in literacy and numeracy are essential for success in the labor market
Cherry, M. Gemma; Vignoles, Anna - 2020
Even in OECD countries, where an increasing proportion of the workforce has a university degree, the value of basic skills in literacy and numeracy remains high. Indeed, in some countries the return for such skills, in the form of higher wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in...
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Swedish vocational adult education in the wake of marketisation
Andersson, Per; Muhrman, Karolina - In: International journal for research in vocational … 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-22
Context: This study is about vocational education and training for adults within municipal adult education (MAE). Sweden has a long tradition of adult education, and has one of the world's highest proportions of participants in adult education. The Swedish education system is characterised by...
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Literacy traps : society-wide education and individual skill premia
Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - 2009
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Bildung und Forschung : eine noch nicht ganz bewältigte Herausforderung
Brosch-Pahlke, Elena; Hauff, Michael von - In: Indien : Herausforderungen und Perspektiven, (pp. 157-197). 2009
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The end of literacy : the growth and measurement of British public education since the early 19th Century
Vincent, David (contributor) - 2009
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Literacy traps : society-wide education and individual skill premia
Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - 2009
Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...
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