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Pivovarova, Margarita; Powers, Jeanne M. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Background: One way of evaluating immigrants' labor market outcomes is to assess the extent to which immigrants are able to enter into jobs that are commensurate with their education and experience. An imperfect alignment between workers' educational qualifications and these required for their current job, or education-job mismatch, has…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship, Employment Qualifications
Guido Schwerdt; Simon Wiederhold; T. Scott Murray – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2020
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to replicate the IALS-based analysis by Coulombe, Tremblay and Marchand (2004) as well as Coulombe and Tremblay (2006) based on more recent and more comprehensive data on the literacy skills of the adult population. Results from panel estimations over the period 1970-2010…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Literacy, Economic Development, Correlation
Jennifer Graves; Zoe Kuehn – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Using individual data from PIAAC and aggregate data on GDP and unemployment for the US, Europe, and Spain, we test how macroeconomic conditions experienced at age eighteen affect the following decisions in post-secondary and tertiary education: (1) enrollment; (2) dropping-out; (3) type of degree completed; (4) area of specialization; and (5)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Decision Making, Macroeconomics, Unemployment