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References for What is the economic value of literacy and numeracy?
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Key references
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Schwerdt, G., Wiederhold, S., Murray, T. S. Literacy and
Growth: New Evidence from PIAAC. Washington, DC: PIAAC Gateway, 2020. Key reference: [1]
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Carneiro, P., Heckman, J. "Human capital
policy" In: Heckman, J., Krueger, A. (eds). Inequality in
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Acemoglu, D., Autor, D. "Skills, tasks and
technologies: Implications for employment and earnings" In: Ashenfelter, O., Card, D. (eds). Handbook of Labor
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Goldin, C. D., Katz, L. F. The Race between
Education and Technology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Key reference: [4]
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Goos, M., Manning, A., Salomons, A. "Job polarization
in Europe" The American
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OCED Skills Matter:
Additional Results from the Survey of Adult Skills. Paris: OECD Publishing, 2019. Key reference: [6]
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Hampf, F., Wiederhold, S., Woessman, L. "Skills, earnings
and employment: Exploring causality in the estimation of returns
to skills" Large-scale
Assessments in Education 5:12 (2017). Key reference: [7]
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Hanushek, E. A., Schwerdt, G., Wiederhold, S., Woessman, L. "Coping with
change: International differences in the returns to
skills" Economic
Letters 153 (2017): 15–19. Key reference: [8]
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Denny, K., Harmon, C., O’Sullivan, V. Education.
Earnings and Skills: A Multi-country Comparison Institute for
Fiscal Studies Working Papers No.04/08, 2003. Key reference: [9]
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Hansen, K., Vignoles, A. "The United Kingdom
education system in a comparative context" In: Machin, S., Vignoles, A. (eds). What's the Good of
Education?. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Key reference: [10]
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Hanushek, E. A., Schwerdt, G., Wiederhold, S., Woessmann, L. "Returns to skills
around the world: Evidence from PIAAC" European Economic
Review 73 (2015): 103–130. Key reference: [11]
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Murnane, R. J., Willett, J. B., Duhaldeborde, Y., Tyler, J. H. "How important are
the cognitive skills of teenagers in predicting subsequent
earnings?" Journal of Policy
Analysis and Management 19:4 (2000): 547–568. Key reference: [12]
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McIntosh, S., Vignoles, A. "Measuring and
assessing the impact of basic skills on labor market
outcomes" Oxford Economic
Papers 53:3 (2001): 453–481. Key reference: [13]
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Chua, K. "Skill achievement
and returns in developing countries: Evidence from adult skills
surveys" European Journal
of Education 52:4 (2017): 498–510. Key reference: [14]
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Vignoles, A., De Coulon, A., Marcenaro-Gutierrez, O. "The value of basic
skills in the British labour market" Oxford Economic
Papers 63:1 (2011): 27–48. Key reference: [15]
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Schwerdt, G., Wiederhold, S., Murray, T. S. Literacy and
Growth: New Evidence from PIAAC. Washington, DC: PIAAC Gateway, 2020.
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Additional References
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- Berman, E., Machin, S. "Skill-biased technology transfer around the world" Oxford Review of Economic Policy 16:3 (2000): 12–22.
- Black, S. E., Devereux, P. J., Salvanes, K. G. "Like father, like son? A note on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores" Economics Letters 105:1 (2009): 138–140.
- Brown, S., McIntosh, S., Taylor, K. "Following in your parents’ footsteps? Empirical analysis of matched parent–offspring test scores" Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 73:1 (2011): 40–58.
- Bynner, J., Parsons, S. New Light on Literacy and Numeracy: Results of The Literacy and Numeracy Assessment in the Age 34 Follow-up of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70). London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy, 2006.
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- Leitch, S. Prosperity for All in the Global Economy-World Class Skills: Final Report. London: The Stationery Office, 2006.
- Murnane, R., Willett, J., Levy, F. "The growing importance of cognitive skills in wage determination" Review of Economics and Statistics 77:2 (1995): 251–266.
- OECD Education at a Glance 2019. Paris: OECD Publishing, 2019.
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- Todd, P. E., Wolpin, K. I. "On the specification and estimation of the production function for cognitive achievement" The Economic Journal 113:485 (2003): F3–F33.
- Tyler, J. H. "Basic skills and the earnings of dropouts" Economics of Education Review 23:3 (2004): 221–235.
- Wolf, A. Review of Vocational Education—The Wolf Report. London: The Stationery Office, 2011.