Cognitive skills and the youth labour market

Ross Finnie () and Ronald Meng

Applied Economics Letters, 2001, vol. 8, issue 10, 675-679

Abstract: With the use of test score data it is found that literacy, numeracy and education strongly influence the probability of being employed, unemployed, having a wage-paying job and obtaining government transfer payments in addition to incomes, weeks worked and weeks unemployed for a sample of 16 to 24-year-olds.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850110037877

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