Data di Pubblicazione:
2020
Citazione:
Skills, parental background,and changes in educational institutions / J. Erola, V. Breuker. - [s.l] : Invest, 2020 Mar 30. [10.31235/osf.io/g6a3c]
Abstract:
In this study, we test how educational expansion, prolonging education, and educational reforms
have contributed to the improvement of skills in developed societies in recent decades. We expect
that the growing openness of the educational system is associated with higher gains in cognitive
skills, but that there are several multiplicative and compensatory processes related to both family
background and the educational institutions involved that can alter these trends, depending on
family background. We test the assumptions with the first wave (2013) of the Program for the
International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data, linked with birth-cohort-specific,
macro-level information on the changes in educational institutions in each country. The results
suggest that the growing proportion of those with a tertiary education as well as the prolonging of
education are associated with the improvement of skills, partially because these changes are also
associated with the increased effectiveness of education in the improvement of skills. However, the
growing number of reforms in general tend to harm the skill development especially of those with
poorly educated parents, even if the reforms were intended to remove educational dead-ends.
Tipologia IRIS:
08 - Relazione interna o rapporto di ricerca
Keywords:
skills; competencies; education, institutions; educational expansion; reforms, social change; PIAAC
Elenco autori:
J. Erola, V. Breuker
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