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Minjong Youn; Chungseo Kang – SAGE Open, 2023
This study explores the role of the welfare state in reducing young people not being in education, employment, or training (NEET)s across 15 European countries. Using data from the Survey of Adult Skills in the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) in combination with the Social Expenditure Database, we conducted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Welfare Services, Young Adults, Out of School Youth
OECD Publishing, 2018
PISA 2015 data show that, on average across OECD countries, as many as three out of four students from the lowest quarter of socio-economic status reach, at best, only the baseline level of proficiency (Level 2) in reading, mathematics or science. While in Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong (China), Ireland, Japan, Korea, the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Walther, Andreas; Warth, Annegret; Ule, Mirjana; du Bois-Reymond, Manuela – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2015
How do the educational trajectories of young people develop differently at the transition between lower and upper secondary education and training--even amongst students labelled as disadvantaged with regard to social background, gender or ethnicity? The aim of the article is to understand the role of decision-making in the emergence of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Decision Making, Disadvantaged Youth, Interviews