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