Does job-related training benefit adult numeracy skills? vidence from a German panel study
Can participation in job-related training foster adults' general skills such as numeracy? Although job-related training is typically designed to foster job- and firm-specific skills, cross-sectional evidence suggests that it may also foster general skills. However, a positive cross-sectional re...
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Can participation in job-related training foster adults' general skills such as numeracy? Although job-related training is typically designed to foster job- and firm-specific skills, cross-sectional evidence suggests that it may also foster general skills. However, a positive cross-sectional relationship between training and skills could reflect training effects on skills, self-selection into training of those with higher skills, or both. In this chapter, we aim to unravel these possibilities using the unique two-wave data on adults’ numeracy skills from the German sample of the PIAAC study and its follow-up PIAAC-L. Whereas cross-sectional models show the expected positive association between training and numeracy, this association largely vanishes when controlling for previous levels of numeracy or relating changes in training participation to changes in numeracy. This pattern of results cast doubt on the idea of causal training effects. In contrast, numeracy predicts selection into job-related training after controlling for formal education and numerous individual and job characteristics. |
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| ISBN: | 9783658255121 3658255129 |