Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia; Nielsen, Helena Skyt - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
of education. By now research recognizes cognitive skills (as measured by achievement tests) and soft skills (personality … traits not adequately measured by achievement tests) as equally important drivers of later economic outcomes, and skills are … seen as multi-dimensional rather than one-dimensional. Explicitly accounting for soft skills often implies departing from …