Skills-adjusted human capital shows rising global gap

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/93201 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/93201 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/93201 archive 353 disk0/00/01/70/34 2021-02-12 10:28:57 2025-10-01 13:14:31 2021-02-12 10:28:57 article show Lutz W. 1124 0000-0001-7975-8145 Reiter C. 2218 0000-0002-1485-3851 Özdemir C. Yildiz D. 2175 0000-0001-6192-0634 Guimaraes R. 9202 0000-0003-1754-9238 Goujon A. 1569 0000-0003-4125-6857 Skills-adjusted human capital shows rising global gap pub POPJUS MDM MIG SHAW H2A human capital indicator, literacy skills, education, cross-country analysis, demography Human capital, broadly defined as the skills acquired through formal education, is acknowledged as one of the key drivers of economic growth and social development. However, its measurement for the working-age populations, on a global scale and over time, is still unsatisfactory. Most indicators either only consider the quantity dimension of education and disregard the actual skills or are demographically inconsistent by applying the skills of the young cohorts in school to represent the skills of the workingage population at the same time. In the case of rapidly expanding or changing school systems, this assumption is untenable. However, an increasing number of countries have started to assess the literacy skills of their adult populations by age and sex directly. Drawing on this literacy data, and by using demographic backprojection and statistical estimation techniques, we here present a demographically consistent indicator for adult literacy skills, the skills in literacy adjusted mean years of schooling (SLAMYS). The measure is given for the population aged 20 to 64 in 185 countries and for the period 1970 to 2015. Compared to the conventional mean years of schooling (MYS)—which has strongly increased for most countries over the past decades, and in particular among poor countries—the trends in SLAMYS exhibit a widening global skills gap between low- and high-performing countries. 2021-02-16 published National Academy of Sciences 10.1073/pnas.2015826118 190 3072 2960 3150 110 public Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 7 e2015826118 TRUE 1091-6490 The Demography of Sustainable Human Wellbeing (EmpoweredLifeYears, H2020 741105) FALSE yes info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/741105/EU//EmpoweredLifeYears info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess