What works : active labour market policies in Latin America and the Caribbean / / International Labour Organization

• Pubblicazione: Geneva, [Switzerland] : , : International Labour Organization, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.1
• Soggetto topico: Labor policy; Social development
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copyright page; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; List of figures; Figure 1.1. Unemployment rates in LAC and other regions, 2000-15 (percentages); Figure 1.2. Change in the regional labour force participation rate decomposed by age and sex, 1999 = 0; Figure 1.3. Employment by sector, status and skill composition in LAC (percentages); Figure 1.4. Average productivity growth rates (2000-15) and productivity levels (2000) by global regions; Figure 1.5. Unemployment rates in LAC, selected countries and regional average(percentages) ; Figure 1.6. Employment composition by economic classFigure 1.7. Income inequality; Figure 1.8. Informality and GNI per capita, latest available year; Figure 1.9. Share of the population covered by conditional cash transfers (percentages); Figure 1.10. Public expenditure on labour market policies; Figure 3.1. Number of impact evaluation studies reviewed by country; Figure 3.2. Mapping of studies reviewed by year of evaluation, impact significanceand method used ; Figure 4.1. Number of recipients of contributory and non-contributory employment programmes and unemployment rate in Argentina, 2004-14Figure 4.2. Structure of the transition stages from Plan Jefes; Figure 4.3. Transition rates across employment status in Colombia between 2010 and 2013(percentages); Figure 4.4. Overview of APE services for jobseekers and enterprises; Figure 4.5. Non-agricultural informal employment rates by quintile, LAC and Peru, 2013(percentages); Figure 4.6. Labour market policy spending in Peru; List of tables ; Table 1.1. Main labour market indicators for LAC, 2015 (percentages)Table 1.2 Share of employment by status in LAC, 2015 (percentages); Table 2.1. Summary table on ALMPs in emerging and developing economies: Types of interventions, objectives and differences; Table 2.2. Results from the ILO Compendium of labour market policies; Table 2.3. Selected examples of ALMPs from the ILO Compendium of labour market policies; Table 3.1. Sources and selection criteria of impact evaluation studies reviewed; Table 3.2. Number of studies by country and type of programme evaluated ; Table 3.3. Findings on the impact of training programmes by study, outcome variableand target groupTable 3.4. Findings on the impact of other ALMPs by study, outcome variable and target group; Table 3.5. Estimation results from the meta-analysis; Table 3.6. Contrasting the meta-analysis findings of the LAC and global samples; Table 3.7. Summary statistics of metadata; Table 4.1. Effects of activation measures in a CCT programme on employment statusand job quality; Table 4.2. Number of beneficiaries of Plan Jefes, SCE and Plan Familias, 2004-10 (thousands) ; Table 4.3. Results from the evaluation of APE in Colombia
• Sommario/riassunto: This report, part of the Studies on Growth with Equity series, examines the effectiveness of Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs) implemented in Latin America, notably policies carried out in Argentina, Colombia and Peru.
• Titolo autorizzato: What works
• ISBN: 92-2-130380-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815128503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Growth with Equity