The high cost of low educational performance. The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes.

Sonst. Personen	Hanushek, Eric A. (Bearb.); Woessmann, Ludger (Bearb.)
Institution	OECD
Titel	The high cost of low educational performance. The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die hohen Kosten geringer Leistungsfähigkeit des Bildungssystems. Langfristige wirtschaftliche Folgen einer Verbesserung der PISA-Ergebnisse.
Quelle	Paris (2010), 56 S.; 2947 KB PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-92-64-07748-5
DOI	10.1787/9789264077485-en
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Kognitive Kompetenz; Bildungssystem; Bildungspolitik; Schulabschluss; Schulleistung; Bruttoinlandsprodukt; Investition; Wirtschaftswachstum; Qualifikationsniveau
Abstract	"While many nations express a commitment to improved educational quality, education often slips down on the policy agenda. Because the benefits of educational investments are seen only in the future, it is possible to underestimate the value and the importance of improvements. This report uses recent economic modelling to relate cognitive skills - as measured by PISA and other international instruments - to economic growth. This relationship indicates that relatively small improvements in the skills of a nation's labour force can have very large impacts on future well-being. Moreover, the gains, put in terms of current GDP, far outstrip today's value of the short-run business-cycle management. This is not to say that efforts should not be directed at issues of economic recession, but it is to say that the long-run issues should not be neglected. A modest goal of having all OECD countries boost their average PISA scores by 25 points over the next 20 years - which is less than the most rapidly improving education system in the OECD, Poland, achieved between 2000 and 2006 alone - implies an aggregate gain of OECD GDP of USD 115 trillion over the lifetime of the generation born in 2010 (as evaluated at the start of reform in terms of real present value of future improvements in GDP) (Figure 1). Bringing all countries up to the average performance of Finland, OECD's best performing education system in PISA, would result in gains in the order of USD 260 trillion (Figure 4). The report also shows that it is the quality of learning outcomes, not the length of schooling, which makes the difference. Other aggressive goals, such as bringing all students to a level of minimal proficiency for the OECD (i.e. reaching a PISA score of 400), would imply aggregate GDP increases of close to USD 200 trillion according to historical growth relationships (Figure 2)." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: Simulation; empirisch; empirisch-quantitativ. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2010/3