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Literacy Scores, Human Capital and Growth Across Fourteen OECD Countries

Serge CoulombeJean-François TremblaySylvie MarchandStatistics CanadaCanada. Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

出版	Statistics Canada, 2004
主題	Business & Economics / Development / Economic DevelopmentBusiness & Economics / Economics / GeneralEducation / Adult & Continuing EducationEducation / Evaluation & AssessmentScience / Earth Sciences / Oceanography
ISBN	06601932569780660193250
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cGgaqNHjxusC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Krueger and Lindahl (2003) highlight the fact that estimates of the magnitude of human capital's impact on rates of productivity growth and overall economic growth are far lower than estimates of its impact on wages and other labour market outcomes observed at the individual level. They attribute this disconnect to the poor quality of the human capital measures employed in macro-economic growth models. Analysis of data from the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) has already demonstrated that directly assessed literacy and numeracy skills have a significant impact on a range of social and labour market outcomes observed at the individual level impacts that come on top of those attributable to educational attainment. This paper represents a first attempt to capitalize on the improved measurement properties of the IALS results, specifically to estimate the impact that the level and distribution of directly assessed skill have had on rates of productivity growth and overall economic growth over the period 1960-1995 for a group of fourteen highly developed OECD economies.