Relations between immigration and adult skills: findings based on PIAAC

Patrik Lind () and Erik Mellander ()
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Patrik Lind: IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, Postal: Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Erik Mellander: IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, Postal: Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden

No 2016:21, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: The international survey of adult skills, PIAAC, records large differences in numeracy and literacy skills between immigrants and non-immigrants. We examine how these differences relate to the countries’ average skills and skill rankings. Immigrants are defined by country of birth or in terms of languages spoken. For almost all countries, the differences in average skills between non-immigrants and the country’s entire population are significant but small. Regarding skill rankings significant differences are found only for Sweden and these are found to be sensitive to the treatment of individuals that could not conduct the skill tests due to language difficulties.

Keywords: PIAAC; migration; language skills; average scores; rank uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C15 I24 J15 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2016-11-23
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