Protection and training : institutions for improving workforce integration in Latin America and Asia / Alberto Isgut, Jürgen Weller, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Isgut, Alberto E., editor.

Contributor:

Weller, Jürgen, editor.

United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, issuing body.

United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, issuing body.

Series:

Libros de la CEPAL ; 140.

Libros de la CEPAL

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unemployment--Developing countries.

Unemployment.

Career education.

Developing countries.

Labor supply--Developing countries.

Labor supply.

Career education--Developing countries.

Physical Description:

395 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Institutions for improving workforce integration in Latin America and Asia

Place of Publication:

Santiago : Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (United Nations ECLAC), 2016.

Contents:

Foreword

Introduction / Alberto Isgut, Jürgen Weller

Part I. Strengthening unemployment protection institutions

I. Unemployment protection systems: the experiences of developed and transition countries / Gerla van Breugel

II. An analysis of unemployment protection in Latin America / Mario D. Velásquez Pinto

III. Unemployment protection schemes in Asia / John Carter

IV. Unemployment protection in Colombia: a proposal for reforming the layoff protection mechanism / Mario D. Velásquez Pinto

V. Unemployment protection: a general layoff assistance fund for the Dominican Republic / Mario D. Velásquez Pinto

VI. Unemployment protection in the Philippines / Sharon Faye Piza, Rosemarie Edillon, Michael Dominic del Mundo

- Part II: Building national technical and vocational education and training systems

VII: Technical and vocational education and training: a review of experience in developed countries / Gerla van Breugel

VIII. Creating effective, efficient and inclusive national systems of technical and vocational education and training in Latin America / Jürgen Weller, Sonia Gontero

IX. The Asia-Pacific region's experience with national systems of technical and vocational education and training / Jenny Grainger, Liz Bowen-Clewley, Sarah Maclean, Jim Matheson

X. Technical and vocational education and training institutions and programmes in Mexico / Ívico Ahumada Lobo

XI. The Dominican Republic's agenda for development to 2030: coordination of public policies for technical and vocational education and training / Oscar Amargós

XII. The national system of technical vocational education and training in the Philippines: a review and ideas for reforms / Aniceto C. Orbeta Jr., Emmanuel F. Esguerra.

Notes:

"United Nations ESCAP, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific."

"Economic development"--Cover.

"This publication was coordinated ...within the framework of the United Nations Development Account project 'Strengthening the capacities of Latin America and Asia to develop and improve labour training systems and to protect workers against unemployment.'"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789211219234

921121923X

9789210575478

9210575474

9789213580400

9213580401

OCLC:

970664827