Introduction to the special issue on Results, Methodological Aspects, and Advancements of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) by Anja Perry, Débora B. Maehler, Beatrice Rammstedt

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The Interplay between Education, Skills, and Job Quality by Alexandra Wicht, Nora Müller, Simone Haasler, Alexandra Nonnenmacher

Subjects: “…Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies…”
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Cognitive skills and the LOGSE reform in Spain: evidence from PIAAC by José A. Robles-Zurita

“…Abstract We use data from the Spanish sample of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies to analyze the effect of the LOGSE (Spanish acronym for General Law of the Education System) reform passed in 1990 on numeracy and literacy proficiency of the adult population. …”
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Making a Case for Feminist Statistics by Lisanne Heilmann

“…In surveying data, large-scale surveys like the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) often not only operate on a binary gender concept but also do not differentiate between a person gender identity and their social gender. …”
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How Openness Enriches the Environment: Read More by Stefanie Trapp, Matthias Ziegler

“…PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies) data were used to fit structural equation models. …”
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Factors Influencing the Time It Takes To Find First Job by Tomasz Zgrzywa, Joanna Tyrowicz, Stanisław Cichocki

“…Using data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), a Cox proportional hazard model was estimated for all respondents and for five subgroups of respondents coming from countries with similar labor markets. …”
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How representative are student convenience samples? A study of literacy and numeracy skills in 32 countries. by Heather Wild, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Victor Kuperman

“…We use the nationally representative cross-national data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies to quantify skill differences between (i) students and the general population aged 16-65, and (ii) students and age-matched non-students aged 16-25. …”
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PIAAC and the South – Is Southering the new Othering? Global Expansion of dominant Discourses on Adult Literacy by Anke Grotlüschen, Klaus Buddeberg

“…Large-scale studies such as Programme for the international assessment of adult competencies (PIAAC) are currently the most influential variant of literacy research. …”
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Heterogeneous skill distribution and college major: evidence from PIAAC by Kan Yao

“…I benefit from the rich data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies to examine this earnings gap in the United Stated and the United Kingdom. …”
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MEASURES OF OCCUPATIONAL MISMATCH by Monica Mihaela MAER MATEI

“…The research developed in this paper is based on micro data available in Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). The research aimed to estimate the size of both forms of labour market mismatch: education mismatch and skill mismatch. …”
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A Simulation Approach to Estimate Inclusion Probabilities for PIAAC Germany by Siegfried Gabler, Sabine Häder, Jan-Philipp Kolb

“…In PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies) inclusion probabilities have to be known for every respondent at each sampling stage in all participating countries. …”
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Adult Literacy and Basic Education Policies in a Comparative Perspective: Selected Findings from four Country Cases by Alexandra Ioannidou, Carolin Knauber

“… Policies on adult literacy and basic education are gaining importance, especially since the results of the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) revealed that a sizeable proportion of adults have low literacy levels and reported significant differences in competence-levels between countries. …”
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Routinization and Employment: Evidence for Latin America by Irene Brambilla, Andrés César, Guillermo Falcone, Leonardo Gasparini, Carlo Lombardo

“…We combine our own indicators of routine task content based on information from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIACC) with labor market microdata from harmonized national household surveys. …”
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The PIAAC longitudinal study in Germany: rationale and design by Beatrice Rammstedt, Silke Martin, Anouk Zabal, Claus Carstensen, Jürgen Schupp

“…Abstract In Germany, the respondents who had participated in the 2012 survey of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) were re-approached for the panel study PIAAC-L. …”
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Analysis of a Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) by Moldir Pocstar

“…The paper analyses variables from the Survey of Adult Skills of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). The data for PIAAC was collected in 2017 in Kazakhstan. …”
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Interviewer Behavior and Interviewer Characteristics in PIAAC Germany by Daniela Ackermann-Piek, Natascha Massing

“…This paper analyzes how interviewers conducted interviews for the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) and which kinds of mistakes they made. …”
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The translator’s perspective on translation quality control processes for international large-scale assessment studies by Britta Upsing, Marc Rittberger

“…International Large-Scale Assessment studies (iLSAs) like PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) and PIAAC (the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies) employ stringent quality control procedures for the translation of their test items. …”

Self-perfection or self-selection? Unraveling the relationship between job-related training and adults' literacy skills. by Britta Gauly, Clemens M Lechner

“…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). …”
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Non-cognitive skills and individual earnings: new evidence from PIAAC by Brindusa Anghel, Pau Balart

“…Abstract We use the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data to construct several measures of non-cognitive skills and to analyze the relationship between non-cognitive skills and earnings. …”
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Non-cognitive skills and immigrant-native inequalities in the labor market in Europe by Agnieszka Kanas, Menno Fenger

“…We use, comparative survey data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies and OLS regressions with country fixed effects. …”
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