Schooling, Literacy and Individual Earnings

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This paper addresses the problem of statistical inference with ordinal variates and examines the robustness to alternative literacy measurement and scaling choices of rankings of average literacy and of estimates of the impact of literacy on individual earnings.

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Product:	International Adult Literacy Survey [Series]
Catalogue no.:	89-552-MIE2000007
Frequency:	Irregular
Status:	Ongoing/Available

Latest issue:	no. 07	Free	View
Release date:	June 2, 2000
Authors:	Osberg, Lars

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Education, training and learning
Educational attainment
Literacy
Outcomes of education

Income, pensions, spending and wealth
Household, family and personal income

Statistical methods
Inference and foundations

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analytical products, earnings, economic impact, regression analysis, salaries and wages, sex, surveys.

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