Browsing School of Economics by Author "Redmond, Sandra"

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Cognitive skills, educational attainment and earnings : evidence from the international adult literacy survey

Denny, Kevin ; Harmon, Colm ; McMahon, Dorren ; Redmond, Sandra (University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2000)
Functional literacy, educational attainment and earnings : evidence from the international adult literacy survey

Denny, Kevin ; Harmon, Colm ; Redmond, Sandra (Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2000-04)

In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings. The IALS surveys 12 OECD countries and sub-regions via a consistent ...
Literacy and education in Ireland

Denny, Kevin ; Harmon, Colm ; McMahon, Dorren ; Redmond, Sandra (Economic and Social Research Institute, 1999-07)

Recent media attention has focused on the low ranking of Ireland in a major international study on literacy. In this paper we examine the dataset used in these studies to consider the reason behind the low ranking. We find ...