The study does confirm a correlation between work and literacy, especially among SARs. However, the direction of causality is difficult to determine. The policy implications of the paper are clear. If exposure to paid work helps maintain or improve literacy skills and does not reduce literacy-enhancing activities outside the workplace, then significant gains in improving the employability of SARs may be achieved by exposing them to paid work even work which does not directly involve literacy activities such as reading or writing reports or manuals on a regular basis. However, at this point in the research, the link between literacy and paid work for SARs cannot be assumed to be a cause and effect relationship.
Further corroboration is needed.