This paper uses direct measures of literacy to examine the influence of cognitive and unobserved skills on earnings. We find that cognitive skills contribute significantly to earnings and that their inclusion in earnings equations reduces the measured impact of schooling. The impact of literacy on earnings does not vary across quantiles of the earnings distribution; schooling and literacy do no...

Speaking and Writing are usually known as productive skills they both require some form of language output. In the exercise establishing a healthy footing for English teaching to other speakers. There several constituents that deal with provision model text; functioning on conversation required execute assignment; Language function setting; educating active students all age group; theories meth...

We examine the links between residential choice, human capital investment, and production, in a city composed of several communities where the acquisition of different skills is subject to peer goup effects. The equilibrium involves maximal self-segregation by occupation, whereas Pareto efficiency may require identical communities. The inefficiency can even cause entire "ghettos" to drop out of...

The paper aims at explaining the changes in how economic actors and their organizations acquire and coordinate innovative and productive capabilities. Using the illustrative evidence from organizational change in the automobile industry in Piedmont over the last 50 years, the paper describes how transformations in the structure of interactions between firms are steered by changes in the pattern...

This paper quantitatively examines the effects of aging on labor productivity using individual worker data in Korea. We find that attainment information and communications technology (ICT) skills participation job-related training can help older workers stay productive. The estimation results present ICT has a positive effect wages aged 50–64 with high level education or skill-intensive occupat...

This longitudinal ERP study investigated changes in children's ability to map novel words to novel objects during the dynamic period of vocabulary growth between 20 and 24 months. During this four-month period the children on average tripled their productive vocabulary, an increase which was coupled with changes in the N400 effect to pseudoword-referent associations. Moreover, productive vocabu...

SsfPack is a set of procedures with a strong link to the object-oriented matrix programming language Ox. In this review I Þrst discuss installation issues and prerequisites for a productive use of SsfPack, namely statistical and econometric knowledge, programming skills and additional software. Next I discuss the documentation and sample programs. Before concluding I discuss extensions in the d...

Dialogue analysis is widely used in oncology for training health professionals in communication skills. Parameters and tagsets have been developed independently of work in natural language processing. In relation to emergent standards in NLP, syntactic tagging is minimal, semantics is domain-specific, pragmatics is comparable, and the analysis of cognitive affect is richly developed. We suggest...