Self-perfection or self-selection? Unraveling the relationship between job-related training and adults' literacy skills.

ABSTRACT: Can participation in job-related training contribute to the formation and maintenance of adults' literacy skills? Although evidence suggests that participation in training is related to higher literacy skills, it remains unclear whether this association reflects a causal effect of training participation on literacy (training effects), results from the self-selection of more high-skilled individuals into training (selection effects), or is due to other sources of endogeneity (e.g., omitted variable bias). To unravel these possibilities, we used data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) and its German follow-up, PIAAC-Longitudinal (PIAAC-L). As these unique data offer repeated measures of literacy skills, spaced three years apart, in a large and r

SUBMITTER: Gauly B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6493749 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature