Cognitive Skills and Youth Labor Market Outcomes

This paper provides new cross-country evidence on the impact of cognitive skills, as measured by international achievement tests, on subsequent youth employment outcomes. In our initial analysis, we find that high average scores are strongly associated with increases in school enrollment and large r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lee, Jean N., Newhouse, David
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12131