Wage returns to skills use, education, and skills proficiency in Flanders

Abstract The importance of communication skills is increasing on the labour market and a further strengthening of this trend is expected due to Industry 4.0. This development will have significant consequences for individuals’ employability, requirements on educational outcomes and gender equality. This article employs data from a representative survey of Czech employees (N = 1,500) replenished with information on requirements on their communication skills (Effective communication, Czech language and English language) in order to explore (a) the distribution of communication skills requirements on the labour market, (b) personal and job characteristics related to work positions requiring highly developed communication skills, and (c) wage returns to these skills. The results show that one standard deviation increase in job requirements on communication skills is connected with 5.8% wage premium. However, not everybody needs well-developed communication skills. Only a quarter of employees needs highly developed effective communication, Czech and English languages, while there is also a quarter of employees that needs only a very basic level of communication skills. The results also revealed that females perform more communication-intensive occupations than males do. Cognitive skills and the need to excel represent other significant factors correlated with higher job requirements on communication skills.

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Using Assistive Technology to Generate Social Skills Use for Students With Emotional Behavior Disorders

Rural Special Education Quarterly ◽

10.1177/8756870518801367 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 235-244 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Francie Murry

Keyword(s):

Social Skills ◽

General Education ◽

Assistive Technology ◽

Behavior Disorders ◽

School Personnel ◽

Emotional Behavior ◽

Emotional Behavior Disorders ◽

Education Environment ◽

Skills Use ◽

Video Model

Researchers have demonstrated the positive outcomes of using video self-modeling (VSM) with students with emotional behavior disorders (EBDs). VSM typically refers to teacher-created videos demonstrating desired skills or behaviors where the student is the video model performing the skill at a level higher than his or her typical display. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the ease and effectiveness of a student-created VSM to generate social skills use in rural general education classrooms. Included are the steps three students with EBD used to produce VSM using an e-book application as an assistive technology to promote their performance of social skills in the general education environment. Suggestions are provided for school personnel who want to implement this assistive technology strategy in the general education setting.

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Soft Skills and Their Wage Returns: Overview of Empirical Literature

Review of Economic Perspectives ◽

10.2478/revecp-2014-0001 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 3-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Jiří Balcar

Keyword(s):

Gender Wage Gap ◽

Wage Gap ◽

Soft Skills ◽

Job Characteristics ◽

Empirical Literature ◽

Psychological Traits ◽

Wage Returns ◽

Two Factors ◽

Methodological Approaches

Abstract Psychological traits, attitudes and soft skills represent factors whose effect on an individual’s wages has begun to be examined recently. Today, there is an extensive empirical body on wage returns to the first two factors, but still a relatively small one on wage returns to soft skills, such as communication, cooperation, leadership etc. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of empirical literature on wage returns to soft skills. It suggests that soft skills are connected with significant wage returns and contribute to closing the gender wage gap. The end of the paper focuses on a discussion on methodological approaches to measurement of soft skills and relevancy of their approximation by job characteristics (incl. suggestion of using tools of competency modelling for this purpose).

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Principles and Implementation of Reading Activities in Primary School English Class

English Language Teaching ◽

10.5539/elt.v9n12p74 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (12) ◽

pp. 74 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jing Jinxiu ◽

Zeng Zhengping

Keyword(s):

Primary School ◽

Primary Schools ◽

Reading Skills ◽

Primary School Students ◽

School Students ◽

English Class ◽

English Reading ◽

Good Reading ◽

Skills Use ◽

Reading Activities

<p>Reading is an important skill in learning English. However, reading class is not emphasized in some primary schools in China, and there are various problems with the reading activities, which inadequately just focus on teaching of words, sentences separately from texts. This paper aims to bring out a whole system of principles in designing flexible English reading activities to help students form a good reading habit, apply reading skills, use language learned pragmatically and be familiar with the cultures covered in read materials. At last, some examples are offered to demonstrate how to implement these principles so as to enhance reading for Primary school students effectively.</p>

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Competition, firm size and returns to skills: Evidence from currency shocks and market liberalisations

World Economy ◽

10.1111/twec.12491 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 40 (12) ◽

pp. 2676-2703

Author(s):

Michele Raitano ◽

Francesco Vona

Keyword(s):

Firm Size ◽

Returns To Skills

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Does Education and Experience Matter in the Distribution of Wages in Nepal? A Quantile Regression Approach

Economic Journal of Development Issues ◽

10.3126/ejdi.v28i1-2.33193 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Pujan Adhikari ◽

Kishor KC ◽

Siddha Raj Bhatta

Keyword(s):

Quantile Regression ◽

Informal Sector ◽

Wage Structure ◽

Maximum Effect ◽

Formal Sector ◽

Market Returns ◽

Agriculture Sector ◽

Wage Returns ◽

Return To Schooling ◽

Experience Effect

Labor market returns depend on the level of education as well as experience of the labors. Though education is argued to be the key determinant of wage rate, other factors such as the sector of employment, gender of the employee, marital status and work industry also matter. This paper investigates the returns from years of schooling and experience by examining the wage structure in formal, informal and agriculture sectors of Nepal. The Mincerion wage equation and quantile regression technique has been used to analyze such impact by utilizing the recent labor force survey data of Nepal. Our results show that wage returns are positively associated with schooling in all the three sectors. However, return to experience has negative association in case of agriculture sector. Furthermore, return to schooling has higher impact at higher quantile along with the distribution of wages in formal sector and informal sector. The maximum effect of education is 4 percent at 0.90 quantile in formal sector. An additional year of experience has high impact at lower-wage group in case of informal and formal sector. The effect varies from 9.2 percent at 0.1 quantile and 4.9 percent at 0.9 quantile in formal sector. The experience effect is higher at median (4.06 percent) in case of informal sector.

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