Maori Literacy: Its Influence on Earnings and Jobs

Authors

  • Simon Chapple Ministry of Social Policy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/lew.v0i0.1050

Keywords:

Literacy, Maori

Abstract

In terms of explaining the gap between Maori and non-Maori labour market outcomes, little attention has been given to literacy. Yet the 1977 New Zealand International Adult Literacy Survey showed that Maori tested English literacy was considerably lower than that of non-Maori in Prose, Document and Quantitative domains. The paper examines the links between Maori ethnicity, literacy and employment prospects and levels if earnings using cross-tabulations and multi-variate techniques on unit data.

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Author Biography

Simon Chapple, Ministry of Social Policy

Chief Economist

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Published

2000-12-04

Issue

2000: Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand

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