TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Antoni, Manfred
AU  - Heineck, Guido
        TI  - Do Literacy and Numeracy Pay Off? On the Relationship between Basic Skills and Earnings
        PY  - 2012/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6882
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6882
        AB  - Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as administrative earnings data. Our results indicate that earnings are positively related to both types of skills. There furthermore is no evidence for non-linearity in this relationship and only little heterogeneity when differentiating by sub-groups.
        KW  - literacy
KW  - numeracy
KW  - earnings
KW  - administrative data
KW  - Germany
KW  - ALWA
        ER  -