Minds and Behaviors at Work
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Minds and Behaviors at Work

Boosting Socioemotional Skills for Latin America's Workforce

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Minds and Behaviors at Work

Boosting Socioemotional Skills for Latin America's Workforce

About this book

Although the Latin American region has shown an impressive growth in educational attainment over the past two decades, that education has failed to yield expected benefits. A mounting body of research and policy debates argues that the quantity of education is not an adequate metric of human capital acquisition. Rather, individuals' skills—what they actually know and can do—should stand as policy targets and be fostered across the life course. Evidence from around the world shows that both cognitive and socio-emotional skills are demanded by employers and favorably affect a range of outcomes, including educational attainment and employment outcomes. Through original empirical research investigating the role of cognitive and socio-emotional skills in shaping adults' labor market outcomes in Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, and Peru, supplemented by similar studies in other Latin American countries, this review confirms that cognitive skills matter for reaping labor market gains in terms of higher wages and formal jobs in Latin America; but so do socio-emotional skills. Moreover, socio-emotional skills seem to particularly influence labor force participation and tertiary education attendance as a platform to build knowledge. The study also presents a policy framework for skills development by: (i) providing insights by developmental psychologists about when people are neuro-biologically, socio-emotionally, and situationally ready to develop socio-emotional skills, and (ii) suggesting new directions in cognitive development.

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Yes, you can access Minds and Behaviors at Work by Wendy Cunningham, Pablo Acosta, Noël Muller in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Business Skills. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
World Bank
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781464808845
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business Skills
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Abstract
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. About the Authors
  6. Executive Summary
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Chapter 1 Introduction
  9. Chapter 2 Cognitive and Socioemotional Skills Profile of the Latin American Workforce
  10. Chapter 3 Do Skills Affect Labor Market and Tertiary Education Outcomes in Latin America?
  11. Chapter 4 Policy and Programming for Socioemotional Skill Development
  12. Chapter 5 Conclusions
  13. Appendix A Abstracts of Background Papers
  14. Appendix B Methodologies Used in This Study
  15. Appendix C Summary of Associations between Measures of Skills and Labor Market and Tertiary Education Outcomes in Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, and Peru
  16. Appendix D Regression Results from Country Studies
  17. Appendix E Cross-Country Variations in Associations between Skills Dimensions and Labor Market and Tertiary Education Outcomes
  18. Appendix F Inventory of Promising Interventions to Foster Socioemotional Skills
  19. Boxes
  20. Figures
  21. Tables