Improving adult basic skills: benefits to the individual and to society

Bynner, John

Improving adult basic skills: benefits to the individual and to society

This research project is the latest in a sequence of studies of the origins and outcomes of basic skills difficulties. The report uses statistical modelling techniques to assess the economic and non-economic consequences of these effects for individuals and for society as a whole. The research was carried out in three stages: production of longitudinal datasets and exploratory multiple regression analysis; micro-analysis of the effects of literacy and numeracy; and estimating the impact of improvements in basic skills on aggregate wages, employment, taxes and benefits using the results of the ... Show more

Authors: Bynner, John; McIntosh, Steven; Vignoles, Anna; Dearden, Lorraine ... [+] Show more

Corporate authors: Institute of Education. Centre for Longitudinal Studies [+] Show more

Published: Nottingham, England, DfEE Publications, 2001

Resource type: Government report or paper

Physical description: 85 p.

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Subjects: Literacy Numeracy Adult and community education Research Skills and knowledge

Keywords: Adult education Research project Basic skill

Geographic subjects: Europe Great Britain

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