This report summarizes emerging evidence on the formation of cognitive, behavioral and technical skills. What does this mean for Vietnam’s education and training system? This report proposes a holistic skills strategy for Vietnam which looks at today’s workforce as much as the future workforce.
This study presents new evidence from employer and household surveys on the role of socio-emotional skills—as well as more traditional cognitive and technical skills—in the Philippine labor market. The Philippines is still at an early stage in terms of its ability to measure and develop socioemotional skills.
This study presents novel evidence from Lebanon on the impact of offering a volunteering program that consisted of inter-community volunteering activities and soft skills training on self-reported social cohesion values in the short term.
This paper examines the effects of a government-sponsored apprenticeship training program designed to address high levels of youth unemployment in Ghana. The results show that apprenticeships shift youth out of wage work and into self-employment.
This report assesses Sub-Saharan Africa’s achievements in skills development and weighs those achievements against the challenges the region faces. It argues that policymakers in the region need to make strategic and smart investments in the early years, education and training.
The objective of the report is to explore the overarching factors in the Central African Republic (CAR) that contribute to the out-of-school youth phenomenon to provide recommendations for improving existing policies and programs.
This case study highlights success stories from Jordan in education related to scale, skills, and affordability and to reaching those who are under-served.
This report examines the opportunities and challenges surrounding public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the youth employment sector. It considers a variety of private sector participation models, existing programs, public policy implications, and recommendations for program design.
S4YE collaborated with LinkedIn to use LinkedIn’s unique data base to address the question: what is the alignment, or mismatch, between the skills employers are demanding and those among the young talent supply? It focuses on four middle-income countries (Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa) and analyzes 390,000 entry-level postings and 6.4 million LinkedIn profiles of youth ages 21-29 to better understand top industries of employment, as well as recruitment and skills trends.
This paper presents the insights on some key issues related to youth unemployment - how can training more effectively prepare young people for work? What roles do expectations, perceptions and aspirations play in young people’s access to employment? - offered by members of the Skills to Succeed practitioner network.
