Functional Literacy, Heterogeneity and the Returns to Schooling : Multi-Country Evidence
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 mea...
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okr-10986-169172021-04-23T14:03:33Z Functional Literacy, Heterogeneity and the Returns to Schooling : Multi-Country Evidence Fasih, Tazeen Patrinos, Harry Anthony Sakellariou, Chris ABOLITION OF FEES ACHIEVEMENT SCORES ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES ACHIEVEMENT TESTS ADULT LITERACY ADULT POPULATIONS AVERAGE SCORE BASIC SKILLS BOOKS AT HOME COGNITIVE ACHIEVEMENT COGNITIVE SKILLS COLLEGE EDUCATION COMPULSORY SCHOOLING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATED WORKERS EDUCATION INVESTMENTS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION STATISTICS EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATION SYSTEMS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL LEVELS EDUCATIONALLY ADVANCED COUNTRIES EFFECTIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION SKILLS FUNCTIONAL LITERACY FUNCTIONAL SKILLS HIGH SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL LITERACY LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKETS LABOUR MARKET LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION LEARNING LEVEL OF LITERACY LIBRARIES LIFE SKILLS LITERACY SKILLS LITERACY SURVEY LITERACY SURVEYS LITERACY TEST LITERACY TESTS NUMERACY PAPERS PROBLEM SOLVING PUBLIC SCHOOLS RATES OF RETURN READING READING BOOKS RETURN TO EDUCATION RETURNS TO EDUCATION SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION SCHOOL GRADUATES SCHOOL QUALITY SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SKILLED WORKERS STANDARDIZED TESTS TENURE TEST SCORES VOUCHERS YOUTH 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. 2014-02-05T14:27:53Z 2014-02-05T14:27:53Z 2013-11 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/11/18501791/functional-literacy-heterogeneity-returns-schooling-multi-country-evidence http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16917 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6697 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research |
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ABOLITION OF FEES ACHIEVEMENT SCORES ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES ACHIEVEMENT TESTS ADULT LITERACY ADULT POPULATIONS AVERAGE SCORE BASIC SKILLS BOOKS AT HOME COGNITIVE ACHIEVEMENT COGNITIVE SKILLS COLLEGE EDUCATION COMPULSORY SCHOOLING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATED WORKERS EDUCATION INVESTMENTS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION STATISTICS EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATION SYSTEMS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL LEVELS EDUCATIONALLY ADVANCED COUNTRIES EFFECTIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION SKILLS FUNCTIONAL LITERACY FUNCTIONAL SKILLS HIGH SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL LITERACY LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKETS LABOUR MARKET LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION LEARNING LEVEL OF LITERACY LIBRARIES LIFE SKILLS LITERACY SKILLS LITERACY SURVEY LITERACY SURVEYS LITERACY TEST LITERACY TESTS NUMERACY PAPERS PROBLEM SOLVING PUBLIC SCHOOLS RATES OF RETURN READING READING BOOKS RETURN TO EDUCATION RETURNS TO EDUCATION SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION SCHOOL GRADUATES SCHOOL QUALITY SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SKILLED WORKERS STANDARDIZED TESTS TENURE TEST SCORES VOUCHERS YOUTH |
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ABOLITION OF FEES ACHIEVEMENT SCORES ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES ACHIEVEMENT TESTS ADULT LITERACY ADULT POPULATIONS AVERAGE SCORE BASIC SKILLS BOOKS AT HOME COGNITIVE ACHIEVEMENT COGNITIVE SKILLS COLLEGE EDUCATION COMPULSORY SCHOOLING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATED WORKERS EDUCATION INVESTMENTS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION STATISTICS EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATION SYSTEMS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL LEVELS EDUCATIONALLY ADVANCED COUNTRIES EFFECTIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION SKILLS FUNCTIONAL LITERACY FUNCTIONAL SKILLS HIGH SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL LITERACY LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKETS LABOUR MARKET LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION LEARNING LEVEL OF LITERACY LIBRARIES LIFE SKILLS LITERACY SKILLS LITERACY SURVEY LITERACY SURVEYS LITERACY TEST LITERACY TESTS NUMERACY PAPERS PROBLEM SOLVING PUBLIC SCHOOLS RATES OF RETURN READING READING BOOKS RETURN TO EDUCATION RETURNS TO EDUCATION SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION SCHOOL GRADUATES SCHOOL QUALITY SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SKILLED WORKERS STANDARDIZED TESTS TENURE TEST SCORES VOUCHERS YOUTH Fasih, Tazeen Patrinos, Harry Anthony Sakellariou, Chris Functional Literacy, Heterogeneity and the Returns to Schooling : Multi-Country Evidence |
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Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6697 |
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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. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Fasih, Tazeen Patrinos, Harry Anthony Sakellariou, Chris |
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Fasih, Tazeen Patrinos, Harry Anthony Sakellariou, Chris |
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Fasih, Tazeen |
| title |
Functional Literacy, Heterogeneity and the Returns to Schooling : Multi-Country Evidence |
| title_short |
Functional Literacy, Heterogeneity and the Returns to Schooling : Multi-Country Evidence |
| title_full |
Functional Literacy, Heterogeneity and the Returns to Schooling : Multi-Country Evidence |
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Functional Literacy, Heterogeneity and the Returns to Schooling : Multi-Country Evidence |
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Functional Literacy, Heterogeneity and the Returns to Schooling : Multi-Country Evidence |
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functional literacy, heterogeneity and the returns to schooling : multi-country evidence |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/11/18501791/functional-literacy-heterogeneity-returns-schooling-multi-country-evidence http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16917 |
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