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...

Finding a job is easier for people who are better equipped with soft skills, as they are more productive. Therefore, this article deals with the evaluation of soft skills of graduates from Czech public universities. The results show that the same soft skills are required from university...

Increasing awareness of the productive potential of soft skills has sparked a discussion of their systematic and purposeful development. However, education systems pay only limited attention to this topic in most countries and remain focused on the development of hard skills. Is this approach...

Despite an extensive empirical body proving the importance of non-cognitive skills and beauty for labour market success, little is known about their role under special conditions and on different segments of a labour market. This article focuses on their effects on employment of Czech...

There is a modest but growing empirical body of evidence on the influence of the managers’ gender on the wages of their male and female subordinates. Most of these studies, however, suffer from a very raw approximation of the managers’ gender by the share of women in charge, and often lack...

Employment and its changes caused by restructuring are topics, which European Union pays attention to in longrun horizon, and the experience of current economic crisis confirms the rectitude of this approach. Structural changes always generate a need of the re-emplacement of laid off workers....