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Pena, Anita Alves – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2016
Mixed findings characterize the literature on skills and economic distributions within and across countries. The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) offers new, internationally comparable data on literacy, numeracy, and digital problem-solving skills that can be combined with wage information. This paper…
Descriptors: Competence, Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Problem Solving
Drewes, Torben – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
The primary purpose of the report is to explore the impact of PISA reading scores on the early labour market outcomes of young Canadians of the Youth in Transition Survey. This inquiry is complicated by two facts. First, family and school characteristics that are positively correlated with PISA scores are also correlated with labour market…
Descriptors: Evidence, Family Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Labor Market
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Hutchins, Teresa; Olbrecht, Alexandre – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
In this paper, data from the Baccalaureate & Beyond 93/97/03 survey is used to examine the link between college graduate earnings and the number of years a school has been accredited by AACSB International. We find that there is no monetary benefit to attending an institution of higher learning which has been accredited longer, which suggests…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Graduates, Salary Wage Differentials, College Outcomes Assessment