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Workers with low literacy or numeracy skills: characteristics, jobs, and education and training patterns

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The authors would like to thank the Ministry of Education for access to and assistance with the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey data. They also thank Anne Alkema, David Earle, Vij Kooyela, Ellen Murray and Paul Satherley for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.

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