Date: | 2006- |
Web: | Official website of the programme |
Description: | The Training and Employment Insurance is part of the Plan "Más y Mejor Trabajo". It consists on an integrated scheme of benefits for no-contributory unemployment to support different people profile in their active job search, through the update to their labour skills and their insertion in better jobs. It is composed by a monthly cash transfer of ARS $225 during the first 18 months and of ARS $200 during the last 6 months. |
Characteristics
Target population: | Unemployed workers who have no access to the contributory unemployment insurance. In the first phase of the programme execution, this was also covering the participants of the Jefes y Jefas de Hogar Desocupados Programme. |
Area of intervention: | Remedial education (levelling of studies/second chance education) Vocational and professional training Support to self-employment |
Geographic scale: | National |
Comments: | The participation in the programme is 24 months. |
Institutionality
Legal framework: | Decree N° 336/2006 of Poder Ejecutivo Nacional Resolution1100/2012 of the Secretariat of Employment |
Responsible organization(s): | Ministry of Production and Labour |
Executing organization(s): | Secretariat of Government, Labour and Employment (Ministry of Production and Labour) |
Source of funding: | Government of Argentina |
1) Training and Employment Insurance
Recipient(s): | Unemployed workers who have not access to the contributory unemployment insurance. |
Periodicity of delivery: | Monthly |
Recipient of the transfer: | Direct recipient |
Conditionalities: | Attendance to one or many activities of the programme |
Comments: | Beside the transfer of the programme, the recipients can receive other benefits if their participate to some activities: the prize for concluding education of ARS$ 600; the prize for concluding professional training of ARS $ 900; The programme for Self-employment gives until AR$15.000 by project, the Support for Labour Insertion Programme gives until AR$ 2.300 as economic incentive for a job in the public or private sector; and the training programme until ARS $ 1.500 monthly for a job in the private sector. |
Description: | The Training and Employment Insurance provide a monthly benefit to its recipients reconditioned to their participation to one or many of the following activities: Completion of primary and secondary education with the delivery of a certificate of formal studies; activities of professional and labour training; services provided by the Employment Office: labour orientation; support to active job search; orientation to self-employment; participation in the labour orientation courses; professionalization of domestic jobs; training for public, NGOs and private sector`s jobs in function of the quantity of daily work hours; the Programme for Self Employment with the delivery of different benefit in function of the project. |
Amount : | ARS $225 during the first 18 months and of ARS $200 during the last 6 months |
Effectiveness of Active Labor Market Tools in Conditional Cash Transfers Programs: Evidence for Argentina
Author: | López, E. and Escudero V. |
Date: | 2017 |
Publication info: | World Development, Elsevier, vol. 94(C), pages 422-447 |
Link: | See Webpage |
Topic: | Impact evaluation |