An employability of individuals became dependent not only on their qualification, but also on their soft skills. Therefore, this paper tries to examine an importance of soft competencies for Romanian labour market and evaluate gap between soft competencies of graduates and unemployed registered...

Bulgaria is witnessing the growing importance of soft competencies for individual success on the labour market. This paper is, therefore, focused on the identification of employers' needs for soft competencies and their comparison with soft competecies of students, who represent significant part...

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...

Family-owned firms account for majority of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Arab countries, but evidence on the impact of this ownership type on access to credit in the region is scarce. Yet the issue is key for understanding barriers to the emergence of dynamic private sector and...