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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? : on the relationship between basic skills and earnings

Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012

Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...

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Math matters : education choices and wage inequality

Rendall, Andrew; Rendall, Michelle - 2014

SBTC is a powerful mechanism in explaining the increasing gap between educated and uneducated wages. However, SBTC cannot mimic the US within-group wage inequality. This paper provides an explanation for the observed intra-college group inequality by showing that the top decile earners’...

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The gender gap in mathematics achievement : evidence from Italian data

Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Mendolia, Silvia; Contini, Dalit - 2016

Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD … countries and mathematics is the only subject where typically girls tend to underperform with respect to boys. This paper …

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Do schools matter for high math achievement? : evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions

Ellison, Glenn; Swanson, Ashley - In: The American economic review 106 (2016) 6, pp. 1244-1277

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Explaining the persisting mathematics test score gap between boys and girls

Sprietsma, Maresa - 2010

This paper provides evidence on the sources of the persisting mathematics test score gap between boys and girls. In … particular, we investigate the role of the share of female mathematics teachers in secondary school and of pupils self …-confidence and extrinsic motivation in mathematics. We find that the share of female mathematics teachers does not seem to affect …