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Dr. Qi Sun
Associate Professor & Program Coordinator
Adult Learning Ph.D. Program
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department
College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
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Call for Papers- 2023 Special Issue Journal
of Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning 13(3)
Check out my recent publications:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07377363.2022.2119803?scroll=top&needAccess=true
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07417136211050119
https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2021.1956303
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1045159521997583
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Thompson, Duren J <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 4:41 PM
To: Misawa, Mitsunori <[log in to unmask]>, Sun, Qi <[log in to unmask]>, Tidwell, Christine (Christine) <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Research Webinar 12/15 - The Importance of Skills and Qualifications for College-Educated Immigrants’ Economic Integration
Adult Learning program folks,
I encourage you to distribute the information below about a free, US DOE-funded webinar focused on disparities in college-educated immigrants’ economic integration in the US.
This webinar highlights a strong international source of public use data available to adult learning scholars. Additional webinars and research tools from this source are available online here:
https://www.piaacgateway.com/
Please do not hesitate to reply to me with any questions!
Duren Thompson
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Educational Program Coordinator
Office of Ombuds Services
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Doctoral Student, Learning, Design, and Technology
Theory and Practice of Teacher Education
College of Education, Health, and Human Services
The Importance of Skills and Qualifications for College-Educated Immigrants’ Economic Integration
Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) -
Research Webinar Series
December 15th, 2022, 12:30pm-1:45pm
How do key demographic, skill, and employment characteristics of college-educated U.S. immigrants differ from their native-born counterparts? Do greater skills always translate
to better employment? What other factors moderate the relationship between skill level and economic integration?
Registration link: https://air-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYode2urzovHtPz1sQnJAKYk35ms7Qu6QY-
Presenters: Dr. Jeanne Batalova and Michael Fix, Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
Discussant: Dr. Roberto Suro, University of Southern California
Moderator: Dr. Monica Mean, U.S. Department of Labor
Using combined 2012/14/17 U.S. PIAAC data from over 12,000 participants, the presenters explore relationships between cognitive skills, employment, and numerous other factors
pertaining to the varied economic integration of college-educated U.S. immigrants.
Between 1990 and 2019, the percentage of U.S adults that are college educated rose from 20% to 33%. Among individuals who have immigrated to the U.S. recently, this percent rose
from 27% to 48% between 1990-2019. Still, certain skill discrepancies are observed in the PIAAC data. Combined with additional barriers to economic integration such as citizenship issues and lack of social or professional networks, Migrant Policy Institute
estimates $40 billion in forgone wages by underutilized immigrant workers. This paper highlights encouraging aspects of the state of immigrant economic integration, including their greater average monthly earnings than U.S. born, college-educated adults.
Registrants will have the opportunity to participate in small and large group discussions during the webinar.
[Note: PIAAC Data was collected from 24 countries in 2011-2012 (with additional data collection in 2015 & 2017). These data sets are available for academic research via Public Use Files here:
https://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/data/]
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About the PIAAC Research Webinar Series The
PIAAC Research Webinar Series provides engaging and thought-provoking virtual presentations featuring AIR commissioned paper authors who used PIAAC data to explore topics associated with adult competencies
in literacy, numeracy, and digital problem-solving. AIR PIAAC commissioned papers are funded through a contract with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of Education.