Employer Voices, Employer Demands, and Implications for Public Skills Development Policy : Connecting the Labor and Education Sectors

Educators believe that they are adequately preparing youth for the labor market while at the same time employers lament the students’ lack of skills. A possible source of the mismatch in perceptions is that employers and educators have different understandings of the types of skills valued in th...

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Main Authors:	Cunningham, Wendy, Villasenor, Paula
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	SKILLS COMPUTER LITERACY SKILLS FOR EMPLOYMENT CAREGIVERS APPLIED SKILLS PERSONALITY TEACHERS SKILLED WORKERS ORAL COMMUNICATION SCHOOLING PSYCHOLOGY EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT NUMERACY SKILLS DEVELOPMENT LITERACY SURVEY GROUPS INTELLIGENCE EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT EDUCATION POLICY LEVELS OF EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL LIFE SKILLS HIGHER EDUCATION BASIC KNOWLEDGE GENERAL EDUCATION COMPUTER SKILLS TEACHER QUALIFICATIONS TRAINING PROGRAMS THINKING SCHOOL SETTING PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE ADULTS LANGUAGE EXAMS LITERACY WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION SECTOR KNOWLEDGE EDUCATED WORKERS COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT CRITICAL THINKING COGNITIVE TEST HEAD START TRAINING EARLY STIMULATION EDUCATORS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SCHOOL CLIMATE ABILITY SECONDARY SCHOOL CHILD DEVELOPMENT HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS PRIMARY SCHOOLING SCHOOL CURRICULUM NEEDS VOCATIONAL EDUCATION LEARNING EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE JOB TRAINING PRIMARY SCHOOL REASONING INFORMATION PROCESSING TEACHING DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN PROBLEM SOLVING DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY COGNITION SKILL ACQUISITION STUDY SKILLS ACQUISITION ATTITUDES SCIENCE ADOLESCENCE VALUES PRIMARY DATA SCHOOLS EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS PARTICIPATION CURRICULA LEARNING OUTCOMES COGNITIVE” SKILLS ACHIEVEMENT EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT EFFORT EARLY CHILDHOOD YOUTH DECISION MAKING PRESCHOOL EDUCATION SCHOOL CURRICULA PEDAGOGICAL METHODS NUTRITION INFORMATION‐PROCESSING SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT ADOLESCENTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOLS SCHOOL CLUBS CURRICULUM TEACHER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES NEW ENTRANTS BASIC LITERACY ETHICS EDUCATION PROVIDERS PERCEPTION COGNITIVE SKILLS WRITING UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN EDUCATION SKILL DEVELOPMENT CREATIVITY REGIONAL EDUCATION INVESTMENT ACADEMIC LEARNING PERSONALITY TRAITS BASIC NUMERACY BASIC SKILLS PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE INSTRUCTION CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT TEACHING METHODS GIRLS STUDENTS EARLY ENRICHMENT COMMUNICATION LEADERSHIP INTERVENTIONS BODY LANGUAGE WOMEN CONCEPTS MEMORY GLOBAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM SCHOOL SECONDARY EDUCATION ADULT LITERACY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
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Employer Voices, Employer Demands, and Implications for Public Skills Development Policy : Connecting the Labor and Education Sectors

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