How do individual skills affect the employment trajectories of people in Germany? How are personal skills related to occupational mobility? How are skills distributed in individual families/between partners? What does this mean for the chances of advancement in our society?

These and similar questions are being investigated by the Germany-wide long-term study PIAAC-L, which has now been approved by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with more than 5.7 million euros in funding. PIAAC-L continues PIAAC in a Germany-wide context. PIAAC, an OECD study also known as the PISA study for adults, examined the everyday skills of adults in an international comparison.

The study is being conducted by researchers from GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, the Leibniz Institute for Educational Pathways LIfBi, and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). Approximately 5,000 people in Germany between the ages of 18 and 67 who have already participated in PIAAC, as well as their families, will be interviewed for PIAAC-L. The survey will be conducted a total of three times from 2014 to 2017.