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Literacy Sharing, Assortative Mating, or What? Labour Market Advantages and Proximate Illiteracy Revisited.

This paper explores the relationship between household literacy and the labour market outcomes of illiterate household members which Basu, Narayan and Ravallion (2002) report using Household Income and Expenditure data from Bangladesh. BNR attribute a considerable wage premium for proximate-illitera...

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Published in:Journal of Development Studies Vol. 44; no. 6; pp. 797 - 839
Main Authors: Iversen, Vegard, Palmer-Jones, Richard
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2008
Subjects:
Literacy
Homogamy
Labor market
Illiterate persons
Well-being
Employment
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