Skills to pay the bills?

The Skills to Pay the Bills: Returns to On-the-job Soft Skills Training*

The willingness of firms to provide general training to workers depends on the productivity gains from training and the likelihood that workers are retained. We evaluate the impacts of training in soft skills development on the workplace outcomes of female garment workers in Bengaluru, India. We implemented a lottery determining access to the program by randomizing lines and then workers within...

Soft Skills to Pay the Bills: Evidence from Female Garment Workers*

Non-cognitive (“soft”) skills – allocating time and money effectively, teamwork, leadership, relationship management, acquiring and assimilating information – account as much for long-term economic success as cognitive ability and educational attainment. But these skills may be very difficult to teach in adulthood, especially to those with low baseline skill sets. Moreover, firms may be relucta...

Antibiotic resistance: who will pay the bills?

The rapid emergence of antimicrobial resistance among bacteria is a public health crisis. Infections with antimicrobial-resistant bacteria increase patient morbidity and mortality and greatly increase the cost of medical care [1–4]. The number of resistant bacteria and the diversity of molecular mechanisms of resistance have increased sharply in recent years [5, 6], but the development of newer...

Who will pay future hospital bills?

Abortion on demand in a post-Wade context: must the state pay the bills?

The legal issues involved with the application of the United States Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton (1973) are reveiwed, particularly the question of whether an indigent pregnant woman now has the right to abortion on demand at public expense. The 2 decisions, based on the Fourteenth Amendment, established that a woman, in consultation with her physician, must be free...