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...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 44; no. 6; pp. 797 - 839 |
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