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Data-Driven Identification of Skills for the Future: 21st-Century Skills for the 21st-Century Workforce

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: The world is rapidly changing and systemic shifts have the potential to affect the nature of work. To prepare the workforce, it is crucial to develop the skills that will be necessary for the unpredictable landscape of the future. Before these skills can be developed, however, they have to be identified and it is important that the approach to skills valuation is empirically defensible. Our approach to skills valuation focus on the extent to which a skill facilitates occupational transitions as its measure of value, and measured using a graph-theoretic approach. Results show that this valuation reflects skills-importance that aligns with existing skills valuation in the literature. Limitations of this approach as well as its potential extensions are discussed.

Source: SAGE Open

DOI: 10.1177/2158244020915904

Author: Alvin Vista

Institution: Brookings Institution

Language: English

Topic: Vocational Education and Training

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $800