Ageing and Literacy Skills: Evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States
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- Green, David A. & Riddell, W. Craig, 2013. "Ageing and literacy skills: Evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 22(C), pages 16-29.
- Green, David A. & Riddell, W. Craig, 2012. "Ageing and Literacy Skills: Evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States," CLSSRN working papers clsrn_admin-2012-16, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 27 Apr 2012.
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Keywords
literacy; cognitive skills; human capital; ageing;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2012-04-03 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-DEM-2012-04-03 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2012-04-03 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2012-04-03 (Labour Economics)
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