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Training Specificity and Occupational Mobility: Evidence From German Apprenticeships
Apprenticeships play a key role in enabling successful school‐to‐work transitions in many countries, but in the presence of imperfect information, the specificity of this type of training may entail important costs for those working outside their training fields.
Dita Eckardt
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Problems and Solutions in the Knowledge Economy: Ideational Power in Slow‐Burning Crises
ABSTRACT Societies are grappling with uncertainty about how to adapt to the emerging knowledge economy. Drawing on the public policy literature, we propose a new approach to studying the politics of ideas during long‐term structural changes. We depart from existing scholarship that focuses on the politics of ideas during episodic crises, and instead ...
Martin B. Carstensen +2 more
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ABSTRACT Demographic development and hiring and retirement policies in higher education institutions (HEIs) have promoted the coexistence of different generations in university departments. Intergenerational learning (IGL) processes in the workplace are crucial for improving both individual and institutional well‐being and performance.
Sheila García‐Martín +3 more
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Lebensumstände von Personen mit niedrigeren Lesekompetenzen : Analyse der grundlegenden Lesekomponenten aus PIAAC [PDF]
Im Projekt PIAAC Reading Components werden mit dem gleichnamigen Modul in PIAAC die Lebensumstände von Personen mit niedrigen Lesekompetenzen in Deutschland und im internationalen Vergleich genauer untersucht. Die Daten werden im Licht des nationalen und
Perry, Anja +2 more
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ABSTRACT This study investigates how parents' perceived accessibility to childcare benefits differs among parents with and without migrant backgrounds, focusing on the roles of functional and digital literacy. Despite the increased availability of childcare services, complex policy procedures and digital requirements can create barriers to access ...
Mehri Zamanbin +2 more
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Converting Nonrespondents in PIAAC Germany 2012 Using Responsive Measures [PDF]
Using paradata to modify design features during fieldwork is the earmark of responsive designs (Groves & Heeringa, 2006). One objective of responsive approaches is to improve the composition of the final sample by gaining the participation of ...
Zabal, Anouk, Martin, Silke
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Local Labour Market Resilience: The Role of Digitalisation and Working From Home
ABSTRACT This article shows that digital capital and working from home were essential for the resilience of local labour markets in the context of the COVID‐19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences in short‐time work rates of up to 30 percentage points at the beginning of the pandemic ...
Sarra Ben Yahmed +2 more
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Just another cog in the machine? A worker‐level view of robotization and tasks
Abstract Technological change has led to a decline in the share of routine and physical jobs, and a rise in the share of abstract and social ones at the economy level. However, much less is known about how these trends unfold at the individual level. Do workers' tasks become more or less routine and physical?
Milena Nikolova +2 more
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Epistemically Suspect Beliefs About COVID‐19: Results From a Population Survey in Finland
ABSTRACT We examined the familiarity and popularity of epistemically suspect COVID‐19 claims and their associations with cognitive, social, and demographic factors in a sample of people living in Finland (N = 1077) during the pandemic (September 2021–January 2022).
Johanna K. Kaakinen +5 more
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PIAAC Literacy: A Conceptual Framework
The current paper provides an overview of the conceptual framework for the assessment of numeracy developed for the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).
PIAAC Literacy Expert Group
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