Minds and Behaviors at Work : Boosting Socioemotional Skills for Latin America’s Workforce

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...

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Main Authors:	Cunningham, Wendy, Acosta, Pablo, Muller, Noël
Format:	Book
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	SKILLS EMPLOYER DEMAND LABOR MARKET PARTICIPATION LEARNING SOCIOEMOTIONAL SKILLS EDUCATION PERSONALITY TRAITS SKILLS DEMAND COGNITIVE SKILLS EMPLOYMENT HOUSEHOLD SKILLS SURVEY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24659

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spelling	okr-10986-246592021-04-23T14:04:23Z Minds and Behaviors at Work : Boosting Socioemotional Skills for Latin America’s Workforce Cunningham, Wendy Acosta, Pablo Muller, Noël SKILLS EMPLOYER DEMAND LABOR MARKET PARTICIPATION LEARNING SOCIOEMOTIONAL SKILLS EDUCATION PERSONALITY TRAITS SKILLS DEMAND COGNITIVE SKILLS EMPLOYMENT HOUSEHOLD SKILLS SURVEY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 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. 2016-07-11T21:01:09Z 2016-07-11T21:01:09Z 2016-07-11 Book 978-1-4648-0884-5 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24659 English en_US Directions in Development--Human Development; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication Latin America & Caribbean Central America Latin America Bolivia Colombia El Salvador Peru
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topic	SKILLS EMPLOYER DEMAND LABOR MARKET PARTICIPATION LEARNING SOCIOEMOTIONAL SKILLS EDUCATION PERSONALITY TRAITS SKILLS DEMAND COGNITIVE SKILLS EMPLOYMENT HOUSEHOLD SKILLS SURVEY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
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description	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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title	Minds and Behaviors at Work : Boosting Socioemotional Skills for Latin America’s Workforce
title_short	Minds and Behaviors at Work : Boosting Socioemotional Skills for Latin America’s Workforce
title_full	Minds and Behaviors at Work : Boosting Socioemotional Skills for Latin America’s Workforce
title_fullStr	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

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