Links Between Literacy and Numeracy Skills and Labour Market Outcomes
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This paper by Anthony Shomos was released on 20 October 2010.
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 251 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Acknowledgments and Abbreviations - Key points (PDF - 106 Kb)
- Chapter 1 Introduction (PDF - 144 Kb)
1.1 Background and previous research
1.2 Aim of the paper and analytical approach - Chapter 2 Defining and measuring literacy and numeracy (PDF - 148 Kb)
2.1 Literacy and numeracy as an element of human capital
2.2 The formal or abstract approach to literacy and numeracy
2.3 The functional approach to literacy and numeracy
2.4 Social and cultural approaches to literacy and numeracy
2.5 The Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey (2006) - Chapter 3 A profile of literacy and numeracy skills in Australia (PDF - 211 Kb)
3.1 Australian literacy and numeracy skills compared over time and with other countries
3.2 How do skills vary across demographic groups? - Chapter 4 Literacy and numeracy skills and labour market outcomes (PDF - 152 Kb)
4.1 Literacy and numeracy skills and labour force participation
4.2 Literacy and numeracy skills and occupation
4.3 Literacy and numeracy skills and income - Chapter 5 Econometric method and variable construction (PDF - 180 Kb)
5.1 Econometric models of labour force participation and wages
5.2 Variables used in the analysis
5.3 Estimation sample - Chapter 6 Modelling results (PDF - 184 Kb)
6.1 Labour force participation results
6.2 Wages model results
6.3 Summary of modelling results - Chapter 7 Concluding remarks (PDF - 143 Kb)
7.1 Summary of findings
7.2 Future research areas - Appendix A Descriptive statistics (PDF - 124 Kb)
- Appendix B Estimation output (PDF - 200 Kb)
- References (PDF - 169 Kb)
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