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This book presents the results of the project on Young Adults with Low Levels of Education, conducted jointly by the OECD and the Canadian Policy Research Networks.  It examines the extent to which young men and women with low levels of education are marginalised, the role family background plays in making it possible to complete the recognised minimal level of education, and how immigrants overcome the cultural and language gaps to find employment.

Academic achievement -- OECD countries. --- Foreign workers -- OECD countries. --- School-to-work transition -- OECD countries. --- Unemployment -- OECD countries. --- Youth -- Employment -- OECD countries. --- Young adults --- Educational attainment --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Child & Youth Development --- Economic conditions --- Economic aspects --- Economic conditions. --- Attainment, Educational --- Education level completed --- Level of education completed --- School years completed --- Years of school completed --- Young people --- Young persons --- Academic achievement --- Adulthood --- Youth --- Education --- Jeunes adultes --- economics. --- Conditions économiques --- Aspect économique

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The paper provides a detailed description of a novel dataset on education attainment in public administrations covering the period 1981-2011 for 178 countries. The dataset uses information extracted from CVs for over 130,000 mid to senior level officials from mainly central banks and ministries of economy and finance. Our main finding is that there is little heterogeneity across regions when considering a non quality-adjusted measure of education attainment in public administrations. Adjusting our measure for quality, using a country wide academic ranking, reveals important cross-regional heterogeneity differing from that of standard measures of education attainment for the general population. The dataset also allows us to uncover important patterns in public administrations' education attainment along gender and seniority across regions. We further use the dataset to explore a few applications which provide some evidence of (i) the importance of salary incentives in attracting highly educated staff and (ii) a positive association between education attainment in public administrations and government effectiveness (e.g. higher tax revenue mobilization, limiting corruption, better public finance management and private market support).

Education --- Social Sciences --- Education, Special Topics --- Education. --- Educational attainment. --- Attainment, Educational --- Education level completed --- Level of education completed --- School years completed --- Years of school completed --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Academic achievement --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Demography --- Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General --- International Lending and Debt Problems --- Efficiency --- Optimal Taxation --- Education: General --- Fiscal Policy --- Demographic Economics: General --- Employment --- Unemployment --- Wages --- Intergenerational Income Distribution --- Aggregate Human Capital --- Aggregate Labor Productivity --- Public Enterprises --- Public-Private Enterprises --- Civil service & public sector --- Population & demography --- Fiscal governance --- Population and demographics --- Civil service --- Public sector --- Fiscal policy --- Economic sectors --- Population --- Finance, Public --- United States