After the identification of several aging patterns (see blog articles on Japan, Sweden, Canada, the United States and France), in this post, we first present a synthetic picture of these aging patterns. We then move one step further to compare across countries the resources generated by economic activities to cover the "dependent" population in society. … Continue reading Facing aging – how employment plays a critical role
In February 2018, INSEE (the French statistical agency) published a remarkable analysis of life expectancy in France in relation to a number of characteristics of the population, such as standard of living, gender, education level and region. Life expectancy in France is one of the highest in the world, so it was enough for me … Continue reading Aging in France: Special challenge of a population of working age that does not grow anymore
In summary In two earlier posts, I proposed a metric to measure the "academic gap" – the distance between students performing the lowest and the recognized international benchmark for "average or standard performance". I measured the evolution of the academic gap between 2006 and 2012. In this post, I'm updating the profiles of the countries … Continue reading Academic gap: Any progress since 2012?
In summary Using the metric proposed in my last post, this post presents changes of the "academic gap" across countries with PISA three-subject average between 2006 and 2012. Countries' experience vary widely, while there cannot be well-defined patterns to call from past performance - there were gainers (Japan, Poland, Italy) and losers (Finland, New Zealand, … Continue reading Academic gap: How much did it change between 2006 and 2012?
In summary Inequality in education leads to great potential handicaps for the kids who suffer an academic gap throughout their time in class. Reliable evaluations are a must to measure students' progress (or lack thereof) and drive in-class teacher practice and system-wide education policies. Teachers have their curriculum-related tools for individual students' follow-up. National authorities … Continue reading Academic gap: How deep societies let their kids sink academically?
See note below for original citation The Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) – the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD ) also calls it the Survey of Adult Skills – is an international effort to assess human skills and further develop our understanding of human capital. It started in 2012 in … Continue reading PIAAC: Measuring adult literacy and skills
