دورية أكاديمية
Lack of skills or formal qualifications? New evidence on cross-country differences in the labor market disadvantage of less-educated adults
| العنوان: | Lack of skills or formal qualifications? New evidence on cross-country differences in the labor market disadvantage of less-educated adults |
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| المؤلفون: | Heisig, Jan Paul, Gesthuizen, Maurice, Solga, Heike |
| المصدر: | Social Science Research ; 83 ; 1-20 |
| بيانات النشر: | USA |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Wirtschaft, Soziologie, Anthropologie, Sociology & anthropology, Economics, PIAAC (rounds 1 and 2), skills, social stratification, Bildungs- und Erziehungssoziologie, Arbeitsmarktforschung, Sociology of Education, Labor Market Research, competence, arithmetic, demographic factors, school graduation, qualification, deprivation, inequality, international comparison, adult, writing, level of education, reading, social factors, career prospect, Qualifikation, Berufsaussicht, Erwachsener, Schulabschluss |
| الوصف: | We use PIAAC data on the literacy and numeracy skills of 49,366 25-to-54-year-olds in 27 countries to shed new light on cross-national variation in the labor market disadvantage of less-educated adults (i.e., those who have not completed upper secondary education). Our empirical analysis focuses on the occupational status gap between less-educated adults and those with a degree at the upper secondary level and yields three main findings. First, individual-level differences in literacy and numeracy skills are an important source of cross-national variation in labor market inequalities by educational attainment, but substantial gaps in occupational status remain even after accounting for individuals' actual skills and further socio-demographics. Second, this remaining occupational status gap rises with a country's level of "skills transparency" (i.e., the extent to which formal qualifications are more informative about actual skills): labor market gaps increase as the skills gap between the two educational groups increases and as the within-group distribution of skills becomes more homogeneous. Third, country differences in skills transparency seem to be the primary mediating channel for the inequality-enhancing effect of tracking in secondary education found in previous research. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| تدمد: | 1096-0317 |
| العلاقة: | https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/70234Test; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.06.005Test; http://hdl.handle.net/10419/202328Test |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.06.005 |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.06.005Test https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/70234Test http://hdl.handle.net/10419/202328Test |
| حقوق: | Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 ; Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.4FC012E8 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 10960317 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.06.005 |