Cohort patterns in adult literacy skills: How are new generations doing?
| Autor: | Elena Claudia Meroni, Esperanza Vera-Toscano, Valentina Goglio, Sara Flisi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Economics and Econometrics
media_common.quotation_subject Population Human capital Literacy Cohort effects Business economics PIAAC 0502 economics and business Economics Cognitive skill 050207 economics IALS education media_common New Skills Agenda for Europe education.field_of_study 050208 finance 05 social sciences Human capital Literacy Cognitive skills Ageing Cohort effects IALS PIAAC New Skills Agenda for Europe Cohesion (linguistics) Ageing Cohort effect Cohort Cognitive skills Demographic economics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Policy Modeling. 41:52-65 |
| ISSN: | 0161-8938 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2018.10.002 |
| Popis: | Skills are core elements of the socio-economic prospects of individuals, while they also improve national productivity, growth and social cohesion. Understanding how skills evolve over time and what drives their evolution has become a policy priority of many European countries. Using the 1994–1998 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) and the 2012 Survey on Adult Skills (PIAAC) we build synthetic cohorts and examine how the population gains, loses or preserves cognitive skills (literacy) over time. While, as expected, deterioration in the level of skills due to ageing is common to almost all the European countries studied, for some of them concerns arise for the occurrence of skill deterioration across generations, especially among less well-educated and medium-educated individuals. Certain countries appear to be doing a poorer job in providing the necessary literacy skills over successive generations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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