The Impact of Soft Skills Training on Female Youth Employment

• Tác giả: Matthew Groh
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 376.64 [Unassigned]
• Thông tin xuất bản: Springer, 2019
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 299732
• Chủ đề: 1. LABOR SKILLS; 2. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT; 3. SOFT SKILLS; 4. UNEMPLOYMENT; 5. YOUTH EMPLOYMENT

Tóm tắt

Employers around the world complain that youth lack the soft skills needed for success in the workplace. In response, a number of employment programs have begun to incorporate soft skills training, but to date there has been little evidence as to the effectiveness of such programs. This paper reports on a randomized experiment in Jordan in which female community college graduates were randomly assigned to a soft skills training program. Despite this program being twice as long in length as the average program in the region, and taught by a well-regarded provider, we find soft skills training does not have any significant employment impact in three rounds of follow-up surveys. We elicit expectations of academics and development professionals and reveal that these findings are novel and unexpected.