Artikel
The impact of soft skills training on female youth employment: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Jordan
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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: IZA Journal of Labor & Development ; ISSN: 2193-9020 ; Volume: 5 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 9 ; Pages: 1-23 ; Heidelberg: Springer
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Labor Economics Policies
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- Subject
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Soft skills
Youth unemployment
Randomized experiment
Expectation elicitation
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Groh, Matthew
Krishnan, Nandini
McKenzie, David
Vishwanath, Tara
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Veröffentlichung
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Springer
- (where)
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Heidelberg
- (when)
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2016
- DOI
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doi:10.1186/s40175-016-0055-9
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Artikel
Associated
- Groh, Matthew
- Krishnan, Nandini
- McKenzie, David
- Vishwanath, Tara
- Springer
Time of origin
- 2016