Schooling, literacy, numeracy and labour market success

Economic Record

Volumn 79, Issue 245, 2003, Pages 165-181

  Chiswick, Barry R ^a   Lee, Yew Liang ^b   Miller, Paul W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; LABOR MARKET; LITERACY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0042700304     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.t01-1-00096     Document Type: Article

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