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

    By Wendy Cunningham, Pablo Acosta and Noël Muller

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWorld Bank Publications
    Release dateAug 17, 2016
    ISBN9781464808852
    Minds and Behaviors at Work: Boosting Socioemotional Skills for Latin America's Workforce

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      Minds and Behaviors at Work - Wendy Cunningham

      DIRECTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT

      Human Development

      Minds and Behaviors at Work

      Boosting Socioemotional Skills for Latin America’s Workforce

      Wendy Cunningham, Pablo Acosta, and Noël Muller

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