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Functional Literacy, Heterogeneity and the Returns to Schooling : Multi-Country Evidence

dc.contributor.author Fasih, Tazeen
dc.contributor.author Patrinos, Harry Anthony
dc.contributor.author Sakellariou, Chris
dc.date.accessioned 2014-02-05T14:27:53Z
dc.date.available 2014-02-05T14:27:53Z
dc.date.issued 2013-11
dc.description.abstract Little is known about which of the skills that make up workers' human capital contribute to higher earnings. Past empirical evidence suggest that most of the return to schooling is generated by effects or correlates unrelated to the skills measured by the available tests. This paper uses the International Adult Literacy and the Adult Literacy and Life Skills surveys to obtain multi-country estimates of the components of the return to schooling. The results reveal considerable heterogeneity and a dichotomy between two groups of countries. For a subgroup of educationally advanced countries, nearly half of the return to schooling can be attributed to labor marker-relevant functional literacy skills associated with schooling, while for a subgroup of less educationally advanced countries, such skills account for just over 20 percent of the return to schooling, while the return to schooling mostly reflects the signaling value of schooling. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/11/18501791/functional-literacy-heterogeneity-returns-schooling-multi-country-evidence
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16917
dc.language English
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6697
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject ABOLITION OF FEES
dc.subject ACHIEVEMENT SCORES
dc.subject ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES
dc.subject ACHIEVEMENT TESTS
dc.subject ADULT LITERACY
dc.subject ADULT POPULATIONS
dc.subject AVERAGE SCORE
dc.subject BASIC SKILLS
dc.subject BOOKS AT HOME
dc.subject COGNITIVE ACHIEVEMENT
dc.subject COGNITIVE SKILLS
dc.subject COLLEGE EDUCATION
dc.subject COMPULSORY SCHOOLING
dc.subject ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
dc.subject EDUCATED WORKERS
dc.subject EDUCATION INVESTMENTS
dc.subject EDUCATION OUTCOMES
dc.subject EDUCATION STATISTICS
dc.subject EDUCATION SYSTEM
dc.subject EDUCATION SYSTEMS
dc.subject EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
dc.subject EDUCATIONAL LEVELS
dc.subject EDUCATIONALLY ADVANCED COUNTRIES
dc.subject EFFECTIVE EDUCATION
dc.subject FOUNDATION SKILLS
dc.subject FUNCTIONAL LITERACY
dc.subject FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
dc.subject HIGH SCHOOL
dc.subject HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
dc.subject HUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subject HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject INTERNATIONAL LITERACY
dc.subject LABOR FORCE
dc.subject LABOR MARKETS
dc.subject LABOUR MARKET
dc.subject LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
dc.subject LEARNING
dc.subject LEVEL OF LITERACY
dc.subject LIBRARIES
dc.subject LIFE SKILLS
dc.subject LITERACY SKILLS
dc.subject LITERACY SURVEY
dc.subject LITERACY SURVEYS
dc.subject LITERACY TEST
dc.subject LITERACY TESTS
dc.subject NUMERACY
dc.subject PAPERS
dc.subject PROBLEM SOLVING
dc.subject PUBLIC SCHOOLS
dc.subject RATES OF RETURN
dc.subject READING
dc.subject READING BOOKS
dc.subject RETURN TO EDUCATION
dc.subject RETURNS TO EDUCATION
dc.subject SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION
dc.subject SCHOOL GRADUATES
dc.subject SCHOOL QUALITY
dc.subject SCHOOLING
dc.subject SCHOOLS
dc.subject SKILLED WORKERS
dc.subject STANDARDIZED TESTS
dc.subject TENURE
dc.subject TEST SCORES
dc.subject VOUCHERS
dc.subject YOUTH
dc.title Functional Literacy, Heterogeneity and the Returns to Schooling : Multi-Country Evidence en
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.date.disclosure 2013-11-01
okr.doctype Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/11/18501791/functional-literacy-heterogeneity-returns-schooling-multi-country-evidence
okr.globalpractice Education
okr.identifier.doi 10.1596/1813-9450-6697
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 000158349_20131112103731
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 18501791
okr.identifier.report WPS6697
okr.language.supported en
okr.pdfurl http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2013/11/12/000158349_20131112103731/Rendered/PDF/WPS6697.pdf en
okr.topic Secondary Education
okr.topic Access and Equity in Basic Education
okr.topic Education :: Primary Education
okr.topic Education :: Education For All
okr.topic Teaching and Learning
okr.unit Education Unit, Human Development Network
okr.volume 1 of 1
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relation.isSeriesOfPublication 26e071dc-b0bf-409c-b982-df2970295c87
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