Digital Skills and Older Workers: Supporting Success in Training and Employment in a Digital World

Autor/inn/en	Hecker, Ian; Spaulding, Shayne; Kuehn, Daniel
Institution	Urban Institute
Titel	Digital Skills and Older Workers: Supporting Success in Training and Employment in a Digital World
Quelle	(2021), (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Technological Literacy; Job Skills; Employees; Barriers; Online Courses; Educational Technology; Adult Education; Poverty; Access to Computers; Internet; Adults; Older Workers; COVID-19; Pandemics; Age Differences; Social Bias; Aging (Individuals); Minority Groups; Racial Bias; Ethnicity; Gender Bias; Educational Attainment; Immigrants; Rural Urban Differences; Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC); American Community Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Technisches Wissen; Produktive Fertigkeit; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Online course; Online-Kurs; Unterrichtsmedien; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Armut; Älterer Arbeitnehmer; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Aging; Altern; Ethnische Minderheit; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Ethnizität; Geschlechterstereotyp; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Stadt-Land-Beziehung
Abstract	The acceleration of the shift to online and remote learning and working brings new opportunities, but it also brings the potential for further inequities in the labor market. Older workers stand to benefit greatly from the expanded access that online and remote learning and working provides. This report documents some of the barriers and opportunities that exist for older workers accessing online programs, with a focus on their digital skill levels. We analyze data from the 2017 Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies survey to explore the digital skill levels of older workers and how older workers' characteristics are associated with digital skill levels. We also analyze American Community Survey data to understand how older workers' poverty status and access to broadband, internet, and computers and other devices is associated with digital skill levels. Our analysis is complemented by information collected during interviews with leaders of programs to support digital skill training for older adults. We find that although many Americans lack digital skills, older Americans have lower levels of digital skills than the average American, and digital skill levels for older Americans from historically oppressed groups are lower still. There are opportunities to support the development of digital skills for older workers to allow them leverage their other skills and improve economic outcomes. [This brief was funded by the AARP Public Policy Institute.] (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01