This study examines the application of the flexicurity labour system in the Caribbean countries of Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. The flexicurity system has its origins in Denmark and combines elements of labour market flexibility with social security for workers. After outlining the elements of the system, the study provides an overview of the labour market in the Caribbean and compares the performance of Denmark with the three Caribbean countries. The comparison shows that there is a much lower level of flexibility and security in the three Caribbean states than in Denmark. The d…
26 - 27 Mar
2025, 17:00 - 20:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an opportunity to galvanize action aimed at promoting greater inclusion of youth in all spheres. This roadmap recognizes in several of its goals the centrality of the full incorporation of youth as a necessary condition to move towards more inclusive societies, in which no one is left behind, on a path to sustainable development. However, youth in the Caribbean face many challenges that need to be addressed as precursors to creating environments that enable them to reach their maximum potential to contribute to the achievement of SDGs by 2030, the…
Governments of the ECLAC region have promulgated labour regimes which support port workers' desire for stable wages and job security, isolate them from market signals and create cargo-handling monopolies. The advent of a global economy, the introduction of export-led growth policies, the acquisition of advanced cargo-handling equipment and electronic information systems, and the participation of private interests in the offer of port services permit enterprises to compare, purchase and employ raw materials, labour and service inputs worldwide, and have transformed the traditional concept …
1 Abr 2006, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 05:21
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Reseña
Este documento fue preparado por Víctor Tokman, Consultor de la Unidad de Estudios Especiales de CEPAL, bajo el
componente de Macroeconomía, equidad y seguridad social, del proyecto CEPAL/GTZ: Policy Strategies for Sustainable
Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Promotion of a Socially Sustainable Economic Policy (GER/01/31); ,
que contó con el el apoyo de la Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Zusammenarbeit (GTZ);. El autor agradece la colaboración de
E. Fajynzilber y E. Espíndola y los comentarios de A. Uthoff, D. Titelman, J. Weller todos ellos funcionarios de CEPAL.El
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1 Ene 2006, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 05:21
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Reseña Este documento fue preparado por Víctor Tokman, Consultor de la Unidad de Estudios Especiales de CEPAL, bajo el componente de Macroeconomía, equidad y seguridad social, del proyecto CEPAL/GTZ: Policy Strategies for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Promotion of a Socially Sustainable Economic Policy (GER/01/31) , que contó con el el apoyo de la Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). El autor agradece la colaboración de E. Fajynzilber y E. Espíndola y los comentarios de A. Uthoff, D. Titelman, J. Weller todos ellos funcionarios de CEPAL.El au…
21 Oct 2016, 05:30 - 11:00
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Evento (Reuniones y seminarios técnicos)
El objetivo de este seminario internacional organizado conjuntamente por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y el Servicio Nacional de Capacitación y Empleo (SENCE) es dar a conocer y discutir estrategias y experiencias internacionales de gestión del cambio institucional para la instalación y gobernanza de los servicios públicos de empleo. El seminario se enmarca en las actividades del programa de cooperación entre la CEPAL y el Gobierno de Noruega, “Vocational Education and Training for Greater Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean”.
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23 Abr 2019, 05:00 - 10:00
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Evento (Mesas Directivas)
La Tercera Reunión de la Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia Regional sobre Desarrollo Social de América Latina y el Caribe se celebrará en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago el 23 de abril de 2019, en el marco de la Tercera Reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible. La Mesa Directiva elegida en la Segunda Conferencia Regional sobre Desarrollo Social de América Latina y el Caribe, celebrada en Montevideo en octubre de 2017, está constituida por el Uruguay en la Presidencia, y Brasil, Colombia, Cost…
22 Abr 2019, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 05:21
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Noticias
Los grandes cambios tectónicos que está sufriendo el mundo del trabajo requerirán de una respuesta colaborativa y de un multilateralismo que reconozca la igualdad, la inclusión y la sostenibilidad como dimensiones constitutivas fundamentales. Así lo señalaron hoy autoridades y expertos de organismos internacionales durante un evento paralelo a la tercera reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, que se realiza este semana en Santiago, Chile.
El evento titulado “Por un futuro más prometedor. Contribuciones del Informe de la Comisión Mundial so…
13 Feb 2019, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 05:21
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Discurso
57th Session of the Commission for Social Development
Panel Discussion: Interactive Dialogue with senior officials of the UN System on the priority theme “Addressing inequalities and challenges to social inclusion through fiscal, wage and social protection policies”
United Nations Headquarters, New York, 13 February 2019
Highlights of the presentation of Ms Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
The world is currently facing a series of global disruptions which pose enormous challenges to sustainable development and people’s welfar…
The member countries of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) have called for an integrated approach to development. Despite making significant macroeconomic progress in the 1990s, the Latin American economies reached the end of the decade with relative poverty levels above those of 1980, while labour market conditions have worsened in most countries. To achieve development with equity, it is essential to apply a gender perspective to public-policy formation, as a technical-analytical instrument to accompany the overall ethical-political goal. For the United Nati…
1 Nov 2008, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 05:20
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Publicación
The purpose of this study is to survey the evaluation literature on active labor market programs (ALMPs) in the Nordic labor market in order to provide a general overview of the success and failure of different types of ALMPs as well as a more detailed account of the Nordic experience with targeted programs towards vulnerable groups such as unemployed youth and immigrants. The consensus in the evaluation literature is that the types of ALMPs that are efficient in reducing unemployment duration and increasing employment chances for the unemployed in general are also the most efficient for vulne…
Summary This paper analyzes labor market trends in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s, arguing that employment must be the foundation of a social policy strategy for the region. The paper begins with a discussion of the expectations for labor market performance that were generated by the reform process in the region. It then provides an overview of what actually happened with respect to participation rates, employment generation, unemployment and wages. It also suggests some reasons why reality was less positive than was expected. Next it examines a new hypothesis about the d…
2023 saw Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools becoming widely available to the general public, leading to the generation of new works of art, songs, text, and computer code. This explosion in new outputs has led to much excitement around AI’s potential, but
also brought to the forefront concerns about countries and communities being left behind, and the technology’s potential to harm individuals and societies. This issue of FOCUS magazine discusses the potential impact of AI on the Caribbean, and avenues
to develop tailored AI policies, governance systems, and to engage with AI issues at the int…