Skills are the key to shaping a better future and central to the capacity of countries and people to thrive in an increasingly interconnected and rapidly changi

This report presents a synthesis of OECD’s empirical work that aims at identifying the types of social and emotional skills that drive children’s future out

Chapter 1. Overview: Why skills matter Chapter 2. Adults' pro ciency in key information-processing skills Chapter 3. The socio-demographic distribution of key i

This edition of the Reader’s Companion accompanies Skills Matter: Additional Results from the Survey of Adult Skills that reports the results from the 39 coun

Young people around the world are struggling to enter the labour market. In some OECD countries, one in four 16-29 year-olds is neither employed nor in educatio