Targeting the development of soft skills in developing countries: Evidence from a growing literature
More and more researchers and policymakers are interested in whether and how a broad array of skills, often summarized as non-cognitive skills, soft skills, life skills, or socioemotional skills, may benefit individuals in educational settings or in the labor market. A large literature in the U.S. a...
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| description | More and more researchers and policymakers are interested in whether and how a broad array of skills, often summarized as non-cognitive skills, soft skills, life skills, or socioemotional skills, may benefit individuals in educational settings or in the labor market. A large literature in the U.S. and other industrialized countries has identified high returns to non-cognitive skills in the labor market, suggesting that individuals who can successfully develop attributes such as patience, self-control, extraversion, or high aspirations, can benefit from a meaningfully different economic trajectory (Heckman & Kautz, 2012). At the same time, this has raised the question of whether non-cognitive skills are malleable, and subject to development through targeted programs that seek to develop individuals’ competencies along these dimensions. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1425002024-10-25T07:57:41Z Targeting the development of soft skills in developing countries: Evidence from a growing literature Leight, Jessica labour markets education youth employment skilled labour youth skills literature developing countries More and more researchers and policymakers are interested in whether and how a broad array of skills, often summarized as non-cognitive skills, soft skills, life skills, or socioemotional skills, may benefit individuals in educational settings or in the labor market. A large literature in the U.S. and other industrialized countries has identified high returns to non-cognitive skills in the labor market, suggesting that individuals who can successfully develop attributes such as patience, self-control, extraversion, or high aspirations, can benefit from a meaningfully different economic trajectory (Heckman & Kautz, 2012). At the same time, this has raised the question of whether non-cognitive skills are malleable, and subject to development through targeted programs that seek to develop individuals’ competencies along these dimensions. 2021-05-18 2024-05-22T12:10:35Z 2024-05-22T12:10:35Z Opinion Piece https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142500 en Open Access Inter-American Development Bank Leight, Jessica. 2021. Targeting the development of soft skills in developing countries: Evidence from a growing literature. Education In Focus. First published on May 18, 2021. https://blogs.iadb.org/educacion/en/targeting-the-development-of-soft-skills-in-developing-countries-evidence-from-a-growing-literature/ |
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