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Gallart. M.A.
Skills, Productivity and Employment Growth: the case of Latin America

Montevideo: ILO/Cinterfor, 2008
112p. (Training features, 36)

ISBN: 978-92-9088-237-0
US$ 15.00

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The aim of this study is to illustrate the relations between training and workers’ skills, productivity and the growth of quality employment in societies in Latin America by means of an analysis of the existing information and case studies of four different countries –Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru–. A review of the activities of institutions involved and programmes implemented raises serious questions about training systems in which the greatest investment is concentrated on better-educated workers who perform in the integrated or formal sector, while poor, unemployed young people and workers in the informal sector receive training that is more limited. It seems necessary to give continuity to programmes that may succeed in correcting orientations and responding to the above challenges.

 

PROLOGUE

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

The country cases
The key variables
Contents of the report

1. THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC SITUATION IN LATIN AMERICA

1.1 The socio-economic situation in the selected countries

The informal sector, poverty and inequality
The evolution of the per capita GDP and unemployment

1.2 The challenges in the 1990s
1.3 The current situation in the four countries

2. EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN LATIN AMERICA

2.1 Formal education

Schooling and the labour force
Education in Latin America: quantity without quality
Educational achievements in the countries analysed: shortcomings and differences
Recent changes in educational systems: educational reform

2.2 Specific education and training structures for training for work

Technical schools
Vocational training: origin and development
Training programmes for young people
The current panorama of vocational training in the region

2.3 Coordination between training, employment and productivity: a historical overview

3. POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES IN RESPONSE TO IMPEDIMENTS TO ATTAINING DECENT WORK

3.1 The problems and challenges
3.2 Policies and programmes to respond to these problems and challenges

Improved quality and quantity in training and coordination with enterprises
Heterogeneity in the economy and training for all
The changing policies of successive governments and the difficulty of linking up interventions and evaluating outcomes in the middle and long term

3.3 Practical consequences of the policies implemented and lessons for the future

Reforms in training systems and programmes for specific populations
Coordination between enterprises and training
Training for vulnerable sectors and micro-enterprises

4. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

4.1 Policies
4.2 The selected countries

Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Peru

ANNEX 1. Statistical tables

ANNEX 2. Boxes

1. CAPLAB: Peru
2. CHILE CALIFICA: Chile
3. PRIMER PASO: Argentina
4. THE UOCRA FOUNDATION: Argentina
5. Education for New Industry: Brazil
6. The SENAI External Evaluation Programme in Brazil
7. The evaluation of ex-trainees from the SENATI Dual Programme: Peru
8. The Labour Competency Certification Programme: Argentina
9. The National Secondary Education Examination: Brazil

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GLOSSARY

 

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