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The low skills trap: the failure of education and social policies in preventing low-literate young people from being long-term NEET
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Abstract This paper investigates to what extent the likelihood of young people being long-term NEET can be explained by low literacy skills, how this varies across advanced countries, and how this cross-national variation can be explained by education and social policies. We use PIAAC data and include macro-... view more
This paper investigates to what extent the likelihood of young people being long-term NEET can be explained by low literacy skills, how this varies across advanced countries, and how this cross-national variation can be explained by education and social policies. We use PIAAC data and include macro-level indicators on education and social policies. We analyze the likelihood of being long-term NEET versus being in employment or in education/training among some 34,000 young people aged 20-30 from 25 countries. We find that low-literate young people are more likely to be long-term NEET. While NEET risks are associated with countries’ institutional characteristics, this does not mean that these characteristics and policies always work in favour of low-literate young people. Although high levels of (enabling) ALMP generally reduce the risk of being NEET, they do so less for low-literate young people. Additionally, young people living in social-democratic welfare states are less likely to be NEET, but low-literate young people seem to profit less from this.... view less
Keywords
reading; writing; level of education; social policy; educational policy; training
Classification
Sociology of the Youth, Sociology of Childhood
Macroanalysis of the Education System, Economics of Education, Educational Policy
Social Policy
Free Keywords
NEET; low literacy skills; PIAAC
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 1-35
Journal
Journal of Youth Studies (2022) Latest Articles
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2022.2118036
ISSN
1367-6261
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed