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Hard and Soft Skills in Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence from Colombia

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dc.contributor.authorBarrera-Osorio, Felipe
dc.contributor.authorKugler, Adriana
dc.contributor.authorSilliman, Mikko
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-26T13:47:02Z
dc.date.available2024-03-26T13:47:02Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-13
dc.description.abstractThis paper studies the effects of an oversubscribed job-training program on skills and labor-market outcomes using both survey and administrative data. Overall, vocational training improves labor-market outcomes, particularly by increasing formal employment. A second round of randomization evaluates how applicants to otherwise similar job-training programs are affected by the extent that hard versus soft skills are emphasized in the curriculum. Admission to a vocational program that emphasizes technical relative to social skills generates greater short-term benefits, but these relative benefits quickly disappear, putting participants in the technical training on equal footing with their peers from the soft-skill training in under a year. Results from an additional randomization suggest that offering financial support for transportation and food increases the effectiveness of the program. The program fails to improve the soft skills or broader labor-market outcomes of women.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099903112072310278/IDU0bb6423c108190045a10a48902cefc1c409de
dc.identifier.citationThe World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/41278
dc.identifier.issn0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41278
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subjectOCCUPATIONAL SKILLS
dc.subjectLATIN AMERICA
dc.subjectRETURNS TO EDUCATION
dc.subjectEDUCATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
dc.titleHard and Soft Skills in Vocational Trainingen
dc.title.subtitleExperimental Evidence from Colombiaen
dc.typeJournal Article
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okr.crossref.titleHard and Soft Skills in Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence from Colombia
okr.date.disclosure2024-03-26
okr.date.lastmodified2023-12-07T00:00:00Zen
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okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099903112072310278/IDU0bb6423c108190045a10a48902cefc1c409de
okr.guid099903112072310278
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okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhad007
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/41278
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34209783
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okr.identifier.report186253
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okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.administrativeLatin America & Caribbean
okr.region.countryColombia
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Skills Development and Labor Force Training
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Employment and Unemployment
okr.topicEducation::Education and Society
okr.topicEducation::Economics of Education
okr.unitIFC Information & Technology (CITDR)
okr.volume37 (3)
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