Working and learning: a diversity of patterns

The combination of work and study has been hailed as crucial to ensure that youth develop the skills required on the labour market so that transitions from school to work are shorter and smoother. This paper fills an important gap in availability of internationally-comparable data. Using the 2012 Survey of Adult Skills ([Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies] PIAAC), it draws a comprehensive picture of work and study in 23 countries/regions. Crucially, it decomposes the total share of working students by the context in which they work ([vocational education and train... Show more

Authors: Quintini, Glenda

Published: Paris, France, OECD, 2015

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 30 p.

Access item: https://doi.org/10.1787/5jrw4bz6hl43-en

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