Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Isgut, Alberto E.

Publication

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

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Details

Additional Authors

• Weller, Jürgen
• 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.

Description

395 pages : illustrations, charts; 23 cm

Series Statement

ECLAC Books ; 140

Uniform Title

Libros de la CEPAL ; 140.

Alternative Title

Institutions for improving workforce integration in Latin America and Asia

Subject

• Unemployment > Developing countries
• Labor supply > Developing countries
• Career education > Developing countries

Note

• "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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Call Number

JBF 17-227

ISBN

• 9789211219234
• 921121923X
• 9789210575478
• 9210575474

OCLC

970664827

Author

Isgut, Alberto E., editor.

Title

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

Publisher

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

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

ECLAC Books ; 140

Libros de la CEPAL ; 140.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

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.

Research Call Number

JBF 17-227