• The incoming U.S. administration will be inheriting a healthy economy. The job market is posting solid gains, home sales and house prices have largely recovered from the bust, and the stock market continues to hit new highs. The current expansion has passed seven years, making it the third longest ever.
• The U.S. economy has added private sector jobs for 80 months and in November added another 178,000 jobs, with the unemployment rate falling to 4.6%, its lowest level since 2007. Since its post-crisis nadir in early 2010 the economy has created 15.6 million jobs.
• Wage growth is running ahe…
1 Dic 2016, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:50
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Documento de trabajo
Under the auspices of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), two important initiatives were undertaken to assist the Philippines to develop, design and implement an effective unemployment protection scheme. These initiatives included: 1) a study tour for officials and policy makers from the Philippines on Viet Nam’s Unemployment Insurance Scheme and 2) a workshop on implementing reforms on the Philippines’ protection from unemployment schemes.…
1 Ene 2016, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:50
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Publicación
The survey provides an overview of the economic performance for 2014 of the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago plus the eight member states of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) and the outlook for 2015. Data were collected from a review of reports from national governments and through interviews with government officials in each of the countries analyzed.…
28 Oct 2016, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:50
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Comunicado de prensa
Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC) GDP will shrink by between 0.9% and 1% in 2016, according to the latest estimates, the second consecutive year of negative growth and a rate of contraction the region has not seen since the early 1980s. According to the Latin American Economic Outlook 2017, the region should recover in 2017, but with modest GDP growth of between 1.5% and 2%, below expected growth in advanced economies.
According to the report, jointly produced by the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Commission for…
29 Ene 2016, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:50
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Documento de trabajo
Work and employment around the globe change continuously, but there potentially more rapid and fundamental transformations ahead as new technologies can have major impact on what jobs will exist in the future, how people will work and how the global division of labor will evolve. This contribution tries to assess the current outlook into the foreseeable future and highlights the importance of labor market institutions that can effectively influence the future of work. The paper in particular addresses the need to reform and update labor market regulation, social protection and active labor mar…
27 Dic 2016, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:50
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Documento de trabajo
Como resultado de un acercamiento previo entre el Jefe de la Unidad de Estudios de la Dinámica y Coyuntura del Empleo de la División de Desarrollo Económico de la CEPAL y el Coordinador del Grupo
de Asistencia Técnica Territorial del Viceministerio de Empleo y Pensiones del Ministerio del Trabajo se planteó la posibilidad de que una misión del gobierno mexicano patrocinada por la CEPAL pudiera visitar la
sede del Ministerio del Trabajo en Colombia para conocer los programas, las metodologías y los principales logros obtenidos por el Grupo de Asistencia Técnica Territorial – GATT a nivel nacion…