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 report...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Groh, Matthew, Kirshnan, Nandini, McKenzie, David, Vishwanath, Tara
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Springer 2019
Subjects:	SOFT SKILLS LABOR SKILLS SKILLS DEVELOPMENT UNEMPLOYMENT YOUTH EMPLOYMENT RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT EXPECTATION ELICITATION TRAINING GENDER
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31377

id	okr-10986-31377
recordtype	oai_dc
spelling	okr-10986-313772021-05-25T10:54:37Z The Impact of Soft Skills Training on Female Youth Employment : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Jordan Groh, Matthew Kirshnan, Nandini McKenzie, David Vishwanath, Tara SOFT SKILLS LABOR SKILLS SKILLS DEVELOPMENT UNEMPLOYMENT YOUTH EMPLOYMENT RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT EXPECTATION ELICITATION TRAINING GENDER 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. 2019-03-12T18:57:27Z 2019-03-12T18:57:27Z 2016-05-13 Journal Article IZA Journal of Labor and Development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31377 CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 World Bank Springer Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Middle East and North Africa Jordan
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Foreign Institution
institution	Digital Repositories
building	World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection	World Bank
topic	SOFT SKILLS LABOR SKILLS SKILLS DEVELOPMENT UNEMPLOYMENT YOUTH EMPLOYMENT RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT EXPECTATION ELICITATION TRAINING GENDER
spellingShingle	SOFT SKILLS LABOR SKILLS SKILLS DEVELOPMENT UNEMPLOYMENT YOUTH EMPLOYMENT RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT EXPECTATION ELICITATION TRAINING GENDER Groh, Matthew Kirshnan, Nandini McKenzie, David Vishwanath, Tara The Impact of Soft Skills Training on Female Youth Employment : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Jordan
geographic_facet	Middle East and North Africa Jordan
description	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.
format	Journal Article
author	Groh, Matthew Kirshnan, Nandini McKenzie, David Vishwanath, Tara
author_facet	Groh, Matthew Kirshnan, Nandini McKenzie, David Vishwanath, Tara
author_sort	Groh, Matthew
title	The Impact of Soft Skills Training on Female Youth Employment : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Jordan
title_short	The Impact of Soft Skills Training on Female Youth Employment : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Jordan
title_full	The Impact of Soft Skills Training on Female Youth Employment : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Jordan
title_fullStr	The Impact of Soft Skills Training on Female Youth Employment : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Jordan
title_full_unstemmed	The Impact of Soft Skills Training on Female Youth Employment : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Jordan
title_sort	impact of soft skills training on female youth employment : evidence from a randomized experiment in jordan
publisher	Springer
publishDate	2019
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31377
_version_	1764474188669648896

The Impact of Soft Skills Training on Female Youth Employment : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Jordan

Similar Items