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

Cunningham, Wendy; Acosta, Pablo; Muller, Noël

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“…Hence, they do not allow for drawing implications for the evolution of wage inequality. The relationship of noncognitive skills (measured in the three Latin American countries) and wages is not as strong as the association between cognitive reading skills and earnings (Cunningham, Acosta, and Muller 2016). Cognitive skills are strongly associated with education, but they explain a smaller share of the variance of wages .…”

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Wage Inequality in Latin America: Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future

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Silva²

2017

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This work is a product of the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The fi ndings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily refl ect the views of The World Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgment on the part of The World Bank concerning the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Nothing herein shall constitute or be considered to be a limitation upon or waiver of the privileges and immunities of The World Bank, all of which are specifi cally reserved.

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Wage Inequality in Latin America: Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future

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2017

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“…Employers around the world also value socioemotional skills, such as the ability to communicate, to work in a group, punctuality, and responsibility (Cunningham and Villaseñor, 2016;Bassi et al, 2012). Good socioemotional skills allow workers to make the most of their cognitive skills and transform those cognitive skills into valuable output for their employers (Cunningham, Acosta, and Muller, 2016). A great advantage of STEP is that, in addition to measures of cognitive abilities, it includes information on personality traits and socioemotional skills, including indicators of the degree of extraversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience, emotional stability, agreeableness, grit, and decision-making.…”

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“…25 Poor youth with low levels of education and experience-high school at mostwho are unemployed or underemployed. 26 Using data from employer surveys, Cunningham, Acosta, and Muller (2016) investigate the role of cognitive and socioemotional skills in shaping adults' labor market outcomes in Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, and Peru. They confirm that cognitive skills matter for earning better wages and improving the probability of having a formal job; but so do socioemotional skills.…”

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Learning Better: Public Policy for Skills Development

Busso¹,

Cristia²,

Hincapié³

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons IGO 3.0 AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-IGO BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO) license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/legalcode) and may be reproduced with attribution to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and for any non-commercial purpose. No derivative work is allowed.Any dispute related to the use of the works of the IDB that cannot be settled amicably shall be submitted to arbitration pursuant to the UNCITRAL rules. The use of the IDB's name for any purpose other than for attribution, and the use of IDB's logo shall be subject to a separate written license agreement between the IDB and the user and is not authorized as part of this CC-IGO license. Note that link provided above includes additional terms and conditions of the license.The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Inter-American Development Bank, its Board of Directors, or the countries they represent. Preface New technologies that are fusing the physical, digital, and biological worlds are impacting all industries, countries, and individuals. This so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution will change the way we live and transform the way we work. Preparing this and future generations of workers for a fast-changing world is not only desirable, it's essential. At the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) we know that a key ingredient to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean is having the right skills to face the challenges of this new era. For this reason, we dedicated the 2017 edition of our flagship publication, Development in the Americas (DIA), to studying this topic and to proposing evidence-based solutions to address this critical problem.Undoubtedly, our region will be heavily impacted by sweeping trends around the world. Artificial intelligence, automation, the Internet of Things, 3D printing, and autonomous vehicles are not science fiction anymore. They are real and available in many parts of the world and beginning to find their way to Latin America and the Caribbean. These new trends are changing our jobs and the way we work. The full impact of these changes is still unknown, but clearly there will be a fundamental transformation in the way businesses do their business and workers do their work.A phrase by Robin Chase (co-founder of Zipcar) is telling: "My father had one job in his lifetime, I will have six jobs in my lifetime, and my children will have six jobs at the same time." Not only will our work not be a 9-to-5 job, but we will also not have the same job for our entire life. The Fourth Industrial Revolution will impose continuous and fast changes that will imply new challenges.A central challenge is how to prepare the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow. I am optimistic because one of the region's principal assets is its people's talent. But much must be done, starting with helping the many workers in the labor force today find good jobs, and stay updated on t...

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“…Like other socio-emotional skills, personality traits are in part developed by socializing and learning, and they have beneficial effects on individual education, work, and life success [for an overview, see e.g., Almlund et al ( 2011 ), Brunello and Schlotter ( 2011 )] as well as on societal outcomes (OECD, 2019 ). Personality traits can be conceived of as skills because they complement knowledge and transform cognitive skills into output (Cunningham et al, 2016 , p. 7).…”

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Personality Traits and Further Training

2020

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The notion of lifelong learning is gaining importance, not only in the labor market but also in other areas of modern societies. Previous research finds variation in occupation-related training participation by worker and workplace characteristics, gender, and education. However, evidence on the individual's socio-emotional skills creating favorable conditions for overall further training is scarce. To close this research gap, we analyze the role of personality for further training participation. First, we compare how the Big Five Personality Dimensions relate to different training types by differentiating between non-formal and informal training measures. Second, we investigate how personality traits affect further training chosen for occupational and private reasons separately. Drawing on a sample of 10,559 individuals from the Adult Stage of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), we find that throughout our estimations, openness to experience positively relates to further training participation and is the most important determinant among the Big Five Personality Dimensions. However, the relationship between personality traits and training participation varies according to the training type and the reason for participating in further training. Moreover, we find gender-specific differences in the association between personality traits and lifelong learning. We conclude that personality is an important predictor of lifelong learning decisions.

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

Cited by 35 publications

References 19 publications

Wage Inequality in Latin America: Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future

Wage Inequality in Latin America: Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future

Learning Better: Public Policy for Skills Development

Personality Traits and Further Training

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