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Contextual explanations for numeracy and literacy skill disparities between native and foreign-born adults in western countries
Using new direct measures of numeracy and literacy skills among 85,875 adults in 17 Western
countries, we find that foreign-born adults have lower mean skills than native-born adults of the
same age (16 to 64) in all of the examined countries. The gaps are small, and vary substantially between countries. Multilevel models reveal that immigrant populations' demographic and socioeconomic characteris…
Creator
- Levels, Mark
- Dronkers, Jaap
- Jencks, Christopher
Subject
- Education
- Macroanalysis of the Education System, Economics of Education, Educational Policy
- arithmetic
- learning difficulty
- literacy
- adult
- international comparison
- immigration
- multi-level analysis
- demographic factors
- …
- Human migration
- Literacy
- Education
Type of item
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Creator
- Levels, Mark
- Dronkers, Jaap
- Jencks, Christopher
Subject
- Education
- Macroanalysis of the Education System, Economics of Education, Educational Policy
- arithmetic
- learning difficulty
- literacy
- adult
- international comparison
- immigration
- multi-level analysis
- demographic factors
- …
- Human migration
- Literacy
- Education
Type of item
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
Creation date
- 2017
- 2017
Places
- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Provenance
- Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Source
- PLOS ONE, 12(3)
Identifier
- oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/61826
- 1932-6203
- https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/61826
- urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-61826-8
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172087
- http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/61826/ssoar-plosone-2017-3-levels_et_al-Contextual_explanations_for_numeracy_and.pdf?sequence=1
- http://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/625BABT6EERHI3DPP6YKAHOT62FX24AZ
Extent
- Seite(n): 25
Format
- application/pdf
Language
- eng
- eng
Year
- 2017
Providing country
- Germany
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-01-20T22:32:50.043Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-01-20T22:32:50.043Z