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| Title: | | Do literacy and numeracy pay off? On the relationship between basic skills and earnings  |
| Authors: | | Antoni, Manfred Heineck, Guido |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | BERG Working Paper Series 86 |
| Abstract: | | Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as administrative earnings data. Our results indicate that earnings are positively related to both types of skills. There furthermore is no evidence for non-linearity in this relationship and only little heterogeneity when differentiating by sub-groups. |
| Subjects: | | literacy numeracy earnings administrative data Germany ALWA |
| JEL: | | I21 J31 |
| ISBN: | | 978-3-943153-00-2 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | BERG Working Paper Series, Universität Bamberg
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