Job creation continues to be a priority in economic policy because the wellbeing of families depends on the quantity and quality of jobs available. In 2004-2008, Latin America recorded its highest economic growth in 40 years, which has had a positive impact on job creation, in contrast to the minimal improvements in both job numbers and quality posted during periods of slow economic growth. Economic growth is not, however, the only factor that shapes these two aspects of employment. The three pillars of the institutional framework for labour, namely, the regulations governing individual and co…
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…
1 Ene 2009, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:40
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During these years of growing global uncertainties, financial and economic pressures, nations and international institutions are searching for political, social and professional answers to the new challenges. The Washington consensus has discredited itself in more respects. Denmark seems to have found effective answers to adaptation needs with it flexicurity system: a labour market arrangement that builds on high mobility, high income security, employment security, and active market and educational policies. Security and flexibility is combined in innovative ways, giving wage earners transfera…
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…
1 Mar 2006, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:40
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This paper examines the challenges facing the labour market in the Caribbean. It uses a combination of past studies and interviews with key informants to identify the key challenges and main policy responses. The main challenges are youth unemployment, the mismatch between the educational system and the needs of the labour market, the creation of jobs, the low levels of productivity coupled with relatively high wages, the emigration of skilled labour from the region and inadequate labour market information. A number of policy measures are suggested for dealing with these challenges: educationa…
1 Nov 2002, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:40
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Abstract This paper examines the anatomy of the pervasive current job cuts and job losses occuring in multinational enterprises. It raises the question of the social and economic costs to countries and workers around the globe, and specifically in Latin America and the Caribbean. It analyzes the growing disempowerment of national authorities in the face of the significant growth and concentration of multinational corporations and their penetration in Latin America and combines current job cut information assembled by the author with the ECLAC Investment and Corporate Strategies Database for…
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 …
14 Ene 2021, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:38
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This study uses wage premiums to explore knowledge spillovers through labour mobility from multinational companies (MNCs) to domestic firms in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in Costa Rica. To this end, the authors use a novel employer-employee matched database for 2001–2012 and various fixed-effects models.…
1 Abr 2006, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:38
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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, 07:38
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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, 07:31
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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, 07:24
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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…
This survey provides an overview of the economic performance of the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago, together with the eight member countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) countries for 2010 and their outlook for 2011. The first section is a summary of the main issues raised in the report including an assessment of the economic prospects for 2011. Chapter II analyses the impact of the global economy on the subregion then provides a comparative analysis of the GDP and sectoral growth performance. This is followed by the subsection on…
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…
19 Oct 2017, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:40
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Comunicado de prensa
The low economic growth experienced by Latin American and Caribbean countries in the last few years will continue affecting the region’s labour market performance in 2017. According to the latest estimates, the rate of regional urban unemployment could reach 9.4% on average this year, which represents a 0.5 percentage point increase from the 8.9% recorded in 2016, ECLAC and the ILO indicated today in a new joint report.
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) released the newest edition of their joint publication Emplo…
30 Oct 2013, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:40
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Comunicado de prensa
(30 October 2013) The Latin American and Caribbean region could end the year with an urban unemployment rate of between 6.2% and 6.3%, which would be slightly lower than 6.4% recorded in 2012, according to the latest projections from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).
According to the document The employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean - No. 9, "the first half of 2013 was not plain sailing for Latin America and the Caribbean", due to a sluggish world economy, increased financial market volatility…
“It’s not possible to create a better future for work without creating a better future for production. These are two sides of the same coin,” José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), sustained this Thursday, June 1, 2023 at the inauguration of the ECLAC-ifo-PILLARS Workshop: Labor Market Effects of Automation and Technology Adoption in the Global Economy, which is being held in Santiago, Chile using a hybrid format (in-person and virtual).
“In order to create decent jobs, it is indispensable that we focus on a pr…
1 Nov 2008, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:23
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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…