Communication and language skills pay off, but not everybody needs them
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4795349 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jiří Balcar (0000-0001-6997-1065, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava , Ostrava , Czech Republic, corresponding author), Lucie Dokoupilová (0000-0002-1525-6178, University of Ostrava , Ostrava , Czech Republic) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 2021 |
| Issue | 270 |
| Pages | 59-93 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ijsl-2020-0021 |
| OpenAlex | W3166543793 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 58 |
The importance of communication skills is increasing on the labour market and a further strengthening of this trend is expected due to Industry 4.0. This development will have significant consequences for individuals' employability, requirements on educational outcomes and gender equality. This article employs data from a representative survey of Czech employees (N = 1,500) replenished with information on requirements on their communication skills (Effective communication, Czech language and English language) in order to explore (a) the distribution of communication skills requirements on the labour market, (b) personal and job characteristics related to work positions requiring highly developed communication skills, and (c) wage returns to these skills. The results show that one standard deviation increase in job requirements on communication skills is connected with 5.8% wage premium. However, not everybody needs well-developed communication skills. Only a quarter of employees needs highly developed effective communication, Czech and English languages, while there is also a quarter of employees that needs only a very basic level of communication skills. The results also revealed that females perform more communication-intensive occupations than males do. Cognitive skills and the need to excel represent other significant factors correlated with higher job requirements on communication skills
Business · Communication skills · Czech · Economics · Employability · Labour economics · Linguistics · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Skills management · Wage · Higher Education and Employability · Higher Education Governance and Development · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Psychology · Marketing
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Language Proficiency in Native and Nonnative Speakers
First-generation college students
Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country
Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children
Explaining Women's Success
The Heritability of Language
Concurrent direct assessment of foundation skills for general education
The gender pay gap in the USA
Occupational language requirements and the value of English in the US labor market
The Gender Pay Gap
Language Proficiency and Labour Market Performance of Immigrants in the UK
Graduate density, gender, and employment
Language learning from the perspective of nonlinear dynamic systems
Men's and Women's Evaluations of Communication Skills in Personal Relationships
Raciolinguistic ideology and Spanish-English bilingualism on the US labor market
Invited Forum
Gender Wage Inequality
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |