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of immigrants and their children into their host countries. Each volume presents concrete policy lessons for its theme … OECD countries. This fourth volume explores the integration of young people with migrant parents, a diverse and growing …
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The labour market outcomes for native- and foreign-born adults during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic vary considerably across countries – with inequalities in employment even falling in some cases compared to 2017. In contrast with the 2008 financial crisis, greater educational...
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Adult migrants in all OECD countries are a diverse group, with different profiles and levels of education. Even if they hold tertiary degrees, they are more likely to have poorer labour market outcomes, including lower earnings. Participation in the labour market is more difficult for...
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What are students like as learners as they near the end of compulsory education? The answer matters greatly, not only … learners. This report analyses the results, focusing on students’ motivation, self-beliefs and use of various learning …
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will also learn how students reacted to the electronic questionnaire and how it compared with pencil-and-paper tests. In … general, there were no group differences across test methods buts students enjoyed the computer-based test more than the paper …
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effective in fostering students’ sense of belonging and participation in school? These questions are of great concern to … information on students’ literacy skills, but also on their attitudes and values, their social backgrounds, and on important …
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Immigrant students often have to overcome multiple barriers at once in order to succeed at school. Across most OECD … countries, poor performance among immigrant students relative to other students is strongly related to social disadvantage at … school, as reflected in the proportion of students whose mothers have low levels of education. The concentration, in a school …
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The results of the Survey of Adult Skills confirm that there is a strong link between the level of numeracy performance and the use of these skills in practice. In view of these findings, countries could further encourage the teaching of numeracy-related disciplines in a wider variety of higher...
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Immigrant students who share a common country of origin, and therefore many cultural similarities, perform very … differently across school systems. The difference in performance between immigrant students and non-immigrant students of similar … socio-economic status is smaller in school systems with large immigrant populations and where immigrant students are as …
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Are students well prepared to meet the challenges of the future? Can they analyse, reason and communicate their ideas … are evaluated: problem solving and financial literacy. Students respond to a background questionnaire and, as an option … the parents through a third optional questionnaire. Sixty-six countries and economies, including all 34 OECD member …
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