Publication: Socio-Emotional Skills for Labor Market Outcomes in the Turkish Cypriot Community
Date
2020-06
ISSN
Published
2020-06
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The labor market of the Turkish Cypriot
community (TCc) is characterized by low participation and
low employment rates, especially among youth. A series of
World Bank reports on the Turkish Cypriot (TC) labor market
and higher education sector between 2016 and 2019 found a
mismatch between the skills generated by the higher
education system in the TCc and those in demand in the labor
market. Socio-emotional skills are critical determinants of
whether youth can work towards achieving their aspirations
in the course of their education, and whether they are
likely to find and sustain employment over the longer term.
When questioned about the labor supply, employers in the TCc
pointed to a lack of technical, interpersonal and
socio-emotional skills among TC youth and students; this, in
turn, reduces their employability due to their low
productivity and effectiveness in the workplace. This
remainder of this report contains sections on experimental
design, data and empirical strategy, implementation,
results, discussion and conclusion.
Citation
“World Bank. 2020. Socio-Emotional Skills for Labor Market Outcomes in the Turkish Cypriot Community; Socio-Emotional Skills for Labor Market Outcomes in the Turkish Cypriot Community. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/34104 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”