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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020

Is There a Rise in the Importance of Socioemotional Skills in the Labor Market? Evidence From a Trend Study Among College Graduates.

Jim Allen, Barbara Belfi, Lex Borghans

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jim AllenSchool of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Barbara BelfiSchool of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Lex BorghansSchool of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we examine whether socioemotional skills have become more important in the labor market within the past 14 years. To this end, we analyze data from a unique dataset on recent graduates from Dutch professional colleges (

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college graduateslabor marketskill requirementssocioemotional skillstrend analysiswages

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PMID32793059
PMCPMC7392119

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