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 report presents findings from the Caribbean Youth Empowerment Program (CYEP), specifically the program's provision of life skills and vocational training to youth in conflict with the law in Saint Lucia.
This brief report assesses the key soft skills that companies seek in entry-level employees and how they are delivered in service and retail industry training programs.
LifeSkills is a toolkit developed by Barclays aimed at teachers, parents and businesses to help young people build a job-hunting toolbox, identify skills and gain experience.
This report maps organizations providing life skills programming in MENA to provide a landscape mapping in the region, curricula and pedagogical methods used, and effective training methods.
This note presents findings from Jordan and describes best practices for implementing quality life skills programs, based on stories of youth, data on participants' knowledge gains, and employment outcomes.
This brief describes the relationship between soft skills and workforce outcomes: getting a job, performance on the job, wages, and entrepreneurial success.
This World Bank initiative measures skills (cognitive, technical, and non-cognitive skills) in low and middle-income countries. It provides policy-relevant data to enable a better understanding of skill requirements (& extent of skills mismatch) in the labor market.
In this report, Youth Employment Funders Group, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation identifies implementation and evaluation challenges in soft skills training and suggests directions for investment in cost-effective, scalable, and sustainable interventions and knowledge.
