Social indicators are an important tool for evaluating a country's level of social development
and for assessing the impact of policy. Such indicators are already in use in investigating …

A unique collaboration featuring the latest methodologies and research on multi-and cross-
national surveys Over the past two decades, the relevance of cross-national and cross …

Abstract The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), an initiative of the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), was carried out in the early to mid-1990s …

It is argued that the ambitious programme 'Education for All', launched by UNESCO, could
be seriously undermined by its reliance upon the achievement of numerical 'targets' …

A presente investigação visa produzir um conjunto de novos desenvolvimentos, teóricos e
substantivos, para o estudo das competências-chave para a sociedade do conhecimento …

The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) raises a number of important issues that are
inherent in all attempts to make comparisons of cognitive and behavioural attributes across …

The volume under consideration, Knowledge and Skills for Life, is a report based on the fi
ndings of an international survey of pupils' achievements organised under the aegis of the …

Bigger firms pay higher wages. This note reports tests of the hypothesis that this big-firm
premium (BFP) occurs because workers in big firms are more skilled. We use the …

This chapter focuses on surveys that are comparative by design, that is, surveys that collect
data from two or more populations and deliberately design their instruments and other …

In this paper we review the literature on the impact of workplace basic skills training on
individuals, as measured by their effects on wages and employment probability. In addition …