Literacy and numeracy difficulties in the Irish workplace - impact on earnings and training expenditure - research (2012)

Date: 2012
Author: ESRI/NALA
ISBN: 9780707003436

Literacy and Numeracy Difficulties in the Irish Workplace: Impact on Earnings and Training Expenditures

This study uses data from an employer-employee linked dataset, the October 2006 National Employment Survey (NES), to assess the impact of literacy and numeracy difficulties on employees’ earnings, along with their effect on private sector firms’ training expenditures.

Category:
Literacy
Numeracy
Workplace

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