This technical report presents EU-17 evidence on the extent of different measures of overeducation and overskilling among working age population in an attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between education and skill mismatch within the broader definition of...

Skills are at the core of improving individuals' employment outcomes and increasing countries productivity and growth while ensuring social cohesiveness. This is particularly relevant as today's global competition is characterized by a higher share of knowledge-based content which heavily relies...

The systematic inclusion of information on orientation of study (vocational vs. general) in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) starting from 2014 will give the possibility to analyse the features and the labour market outcomes of individuals depending on the programme orientation of their...

Early school leavers (ELET), normally face greater difficulties in successfully integrating in the labour market, earn less, have higher unemployment rates, and are more at risk of social exclusion and poverty than those who complete higher levels of education. This can have negative...

Thus, this paper aims to provide a framework for the collection of statistical indicators and sub-indicators on adult skills. This information can be used to monitor skill development among EU countries while comparing its progress with the agreed target and EU average performance. A preliminary...

This technical briefing deals with adult participation in lifelong learning. In particular, it focuses on the implications associated to the use of different statistical sources (LFS, AES/CVTS and PIAAC), characterized by different reference periods and different definitions of lifelong...

This study identifies the academic effects of online learning mandates on high-school students separately from the overall effect of the pandemic. We exploit exogenous variation in 2020/2021 Italian schooling mandates that imposed online learning on upper secondary school students while...

The main purpose of this technical brief is to investigate the comparability between two early childhood education and care indicators currently used by the European Commission - namely the Barcelona target and the early childhood education and care (ECEC) ET 2020 benchmark - and to identify...

Studying abroad has positive effects at personal, social, professional, institutional and country level. On 29 November 2011, the Council of Ministers of Education, Youth, Culture & Sport agreed that "by 2020, an EU average of at least 20 % of higher education graduates should have had a period...