Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/166022 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2016:21
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
The international survey of adult skills, PIAAC, records large differences in numeracy and literacy skills between immigrants and non-immigrants. We examine how these differences relate to the countries' average skills and skill rankings. Immigrants are defined by country of birth or in terms of languages spoken. For almost all countries, the differences in average skills between non-immigrants and the country's entire population are significant but small. Regarding skill rankings significant differences are found only for Sweden and these are found to be sensitive to the treatment of individuals that could not conduct the skill tests due to language difficulties.
Subjects: 
PIAAC
migration
language skills
average scores
rank uncertainty
JEL: 
I24
J15
O15
C15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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