Developing socioemotional skills for the Philippines' labor market

Although the Philippines has achieved remarkable progress in raising the education level of its labor force, the standard proxy for educational attainment - years of formal schooling - is increasingly inadequate as a measure of workforce skills. About one-third of employers report being unable to fill vacancies because applicants lack requisite skills. Most of these missing skills are socioemotional skills, which are increasingly crucial to the types of jobs being created by the global economy. This book presents new evidence from employer and household surveys on the role of socioemotional sk ... Show more

Authors: Acosta, Pablo A.; Igarashi, Takiko; Olfindo, Rosechin; Rutkowski, Jan

Published: Washington, District of Columbia, World Bank, 2017

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: xv, 95 p.

Access item: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/28381

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