Differing Skill Requirements across Countries and over Time. Research Report

Autor/inn/en	Ryan, Chris; Sinning, Mathias
Institution	National Centre for Vocational Education Research
Titel	Differing Skill Requirements across Countries and over Time. Research Report
Quelle	(2011), (40 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-9219-5552-5
Schlagwörter	Numeracy; Skilled Workers; Foreign Countries; Adult Literacy; Vocational Education; Job Skills; Skill Analysis; Comparative Analysis; Comparative Education; Occupational Surveys; Workplace Literacy; Task Analysis; Daily Living Skills; Educational Attainment; Use Studies; Performance Factors; Measures (Individuals); Research Reports; Australia; Canada; New Zealand; United States; International Adult Literacy Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rechenkompetenz; Facharbeiter; Ausland; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Produktive Fertigkeit; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Berufsanalyse; Aufgabenanalyse; Alltagsfertigkeit; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Benutzerschulung; Leistungsindikator; Messdaten; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Australien; Kanada; Neuseeland; USA
Abstract	This report comes from a three-year program of research, "Securing Their Future: Older Workers and the Role of VET." Previous work from the program looked at how well workers were matched to their jobs, based on their literacy and numeracy skills and the use of these skills in the workplace. In a continuation of that work, the research reported here investigates the relationship between skills and skills use at work in four Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries: Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada. This research takes advantage of two international surveys coordinated by Statistics Canada and the OECD: the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) and the Adult Literacy and Life Skills (ALLS) survey. These two surveys, conducted ten years apart, contain unique information about the literacy skills of workers and the frequency with which they undertake a range of literacy- and numeracy-related tasks. These data allow the authors to investigate skill matches to job requirements for workers in the four countries noted above. Key findings include: (1) While it might be expected that factors such as economic growth, technological innovation and structural change in the labour markets of these different countries have led to differences in the use of skills over time, the broad match of workers to jobs that use their skills was quite similar across the four countries; (2) The relationship between individual skills and skill requirements at work was positive for all four countries. High-skilled workers indicated that they use their skills more often at work than less-skilled workers; and (3) Despite the fact that these countries have probably experienced similar developments and adoption of new technology, they do not exhibit the same patterns of change in skill use over time. (Contains 10 tables, 5 figures and 6 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10