eprintid: 10160350 rev_number: 16 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/16/03/50 datestamp: 2022-11-25 11:53:29 lastmod: 2023-04-26 13:34:45 status_changed: 2023-04-26 13:34:45 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Green, Andy creators_name: Kaye, Neil title: The effects of system type and characteristics on skills inequalities during upper secondary education: a quasi-cohort analysis of OECD data ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J80 keywords: Skills inequality, literacy, numeracy, education systems note: This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. abstract: This article examines the effects of education system types and characteristics on changes in the distributions of literacy and numeracy skills during the upper secondary phase of education and training. Whereas there is a substantial literature on system effects on skills during the primary and lower secondary phases of education, much less has been written about these effects in relation to the upper secondary phase. This article reports on research using quasi-cohort data for 15-year-olds in PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) and 18- to 20-year-olds in the Survey of Adult Skills to test the effects of a range of system indicators on changes in skills distributions during the upper secondary phase. Consistent with some dominant theories, our difference-in-difference analysis identifies a range of system characteristics associated with skills inequality reduction in upper secondary education and training, which relate to ‘system standardisation’ and ‘parity of esteem’, and which can explain why some ‘system types’ are more effective than others in reducing skills inequality. date: 2022-12-01 date_type: published publisher: Taylor & Francis official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2022.2150884 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1990909 doi: 10.1080/02671522.2022.2150884 lyricists_name: Green, Andrew lyricists_id: ADGRE35 actors_name: Green, Andrew actors_id: ADGRE35 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: ES/T001526/1 [ESRC]; MSAPG017 [Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore University of social Science] full_text_status: public publication: Research Papers in Education citation: Green, Andy; Kaye, Neil; (2022) The effects of system type and characteristics on skills inequalities during upper secondary education: a quasi-cohort analysis of OECD data. Research Papers in Education 10.1080/02671522.2022.2150884 <https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2022.2150884>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10160350/1/Green_The%20effects%20of%20system%20type%20and%20characteristics%20on%20skills%20inequalities%20during%20upper%20secondary%20education%20a%20quasi%20cohort%20analysis%20of%20OECD%20data.pdf