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Schooling, Literacy and Individual Earnings. International Adult Literacy Survey.
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Osberg, Lars – 2000
This paper uses direct measures of literacy skill levels provided by the International Adult Literacy Survey to estimate the return to literacy skills. Using a very simple human capital earnings equation and standard ordinary least squares regression, it tested estimates of the return to literacy skills for their robustness to alternative scalings…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations