Skills in Norway: Prioritising ChallengesOECD SKILLS STRATEGY KEY FINDINGS FROM THE SURVEY OF ADULT SKILLS

Prioritization WorkshopOslo 23rd October

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Survey of Adult Skills in brief

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Provided information about the skills they use at work

157 000 adults across 24 countries/economiesrepresenting 724 million

Answered a questionnaire about themselves

Completed internationally agreed assessment of literacy, numeracy and problem solving in technology-rich environments

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Challenge 1: Ensure Strong Foundation Skills For All.

Distribution of numeracy proficiency scores

Spain

United States

Ireland

England/N. Ireland (UK)

Canada

Average

Estonia

Czech Republic

Denmark

Sweden

Flanders (Belgium)

Japan

100 150 200 250 300 350 400

Score

25th percentile

Mean and .95 confidence interval for

mean75th

percentile95th

percentile5th

percentile

Challenge 1: Ensure Strong Foundation Skills For All..

Distribution of literacy proficiency scores 25th percentile

Mean and .95 confidence interval for

mean75th

percentile95th

percentile5th

percentile

Italy

France

Poland

United States

Denmark

Korea

Canada

Czech Republic

Estonia

Sweden

Netherlands

Japan

100 150 200 250 300 350 400

Score

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Challenge 1: Ensure Strong Foundation Skills For All

Mean score on numeracy by age group16 -24 55- 6525-34 35- 44 45- 54

Score

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Sweden

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nds

Denmark

Finland

United Sta

tes

England/NI (U

K)

Czech

Republic

Ireland

Average

Canada

Estonia

Austria

Flanders

(Belgium)

Spain

Australia

Germany

JapanKore

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Poland

Slovak Republic0

20

40

60

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100

Below level 1 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4/5

All adult education and trainingby literacy proficiency

Per cent

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Estonia

Japan

Norway

Czech

Republic

DenmarkIta

lyKore

a

Slovak Republic

Poland

Finland

Germany

Australia

Austria

AverageSpain

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Canada

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France

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Difference between tertiary and below upper secondary

Difference between tertiary and upper secondary

Score point difference

Challenge 2: Reduce Drop-outsLiteracy proficiency: score differences by educational attainment

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Challenge 3: Inform Educational ChoicesIntroduction of new processes or technologies

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10

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Per cent

Share of workers who reported introduction of new processes or technologies in their current workplace during previous three years that affected their work

Low-skilled clerical

High-skilled clerical

Low-skilled manual

High-skilled manual

Total

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Challenge 3: Inform Educational ChoicesRelative earnings from employment by educational attainment

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190 Below upper secondary educationTertiary educationUpper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education

Index

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Challenge 4: Enhancing Participation Among Those Receiving Disability Benefit

Disability benefit recipients as a percentage of the population aged 20-64

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Challenge 4: Enhancing Participation Among Those Receiving Disability Benefit

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Labour market status for adults at each literacy skill

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1.8 Years of education Proficiency in literacy

Challenge 5: Increase Attachment Among Low-Skilled.

Effect of education and literacy on labour market participation

Odds ratio

Statistically significant differences are marked in a darker tone

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Challenge 6: Ensuring Norwegians Remain Active Longer

Labour market status by age and gender

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Challenge 7: Engaging Employers in Ensuring a Highly-Skilled Workforce

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Percentage of workers who are over/under qualified over/under-skilled (literacy)

Austria

Spain

Czech Republic

Ireland

Germany

Slovak Republic

Italy

Korea

Average

Japan

Australia

United States

Norway

England/N. Ireland (UK)

Flanders (Belgium)

Denmark

Poland

Estonia

Netherlands

Canada

Finland

Sweden

0 10 20 30 40

Under-skilled Over-skilled

%%

35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0

Under-qualifica-tionOver-qualifica-tion

%%

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Challenge 8: Promoting Entrepreneurship.

Self-employment as a share of total employment

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Challenge 9: Enhancing the Use of Migrant Worker Skills

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Challenge 10: A Whole of Government Approach .

Involving a broad set of stakeholders

Employment Services

Vocational training /

universities

Local councils

Employers &

employers associations

Economic developm

entactors

Unions

• Successful skills strategies can be characterised by ‘institutional thickness’ - supported by a dense network of stakeholders from both the public and private sectors

• Many stakeholders have a role to play including public employment services, economic development actors, vocational education institutes, universities, unions, employers, industry representatives

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RuralIntermediateMetropolitan

Skills Surplus

Low Skill Equilibrium

Challenge 11: Local Flexibility and Adaptability.

Stark Disparities across regions

Skills Shortage

High SkillEquilibrium

Challenge 12: Building Partnerships for Implementation

• Building Partnerships

• Collecting Information• Collecting information• Using information

• Effecting Evaluation• Scale up success• Scale down those that are not working

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Thank you

Emily Farchy

Education and Skills

Emily.Farchy@oecd.org

Kristine Langenbucher

Employment, Labour and Social Affairs

Kristine.Langenbucher@oecd.org

Jonathan Barr

Local Employment and Economic Development

Jonathan.Barr@oecd.org

Pierce O’Reilly

Centre for Tax Policy

Pierce.oreilly@oecd.org