| Autor institucional : | ILO report to the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers Meeting |
| Fecha de publicación: | Washington, DC, 20–21 April 2010 |
| Alcance geográfico: | Regional |
| Publicado en: | Regional |
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| Resumen: | What employment policies work and in what context? This is a legitimate question that is frequently posed more often when employment is difficult to come by, as during the global economic crisis. The question is also posed in times of recovery, when policies for accelerating recovery in employment catch public attention.
The ILO has been asked by the G20 countries to shed light on these questions. In September 2009, the ILO submitted to G20 Leaders an inventory of employment, labour and social protection policies taken to respond to the crisis (ILO 2009a). The inventory covered 54 countries and showed which countries had adopted which measures.In this report, the ILO tries to answer the question which employment and social protection policies yield good results in which context? Thirteen policies pertaining to employment and social protection are reviewed in this document. The details of the policy measures are examined, with examples of countries having applied them, an indication of likely coverage, and some analysis of the rationale of the policy in relation to the crisis and the recovery. They were grouped in three parts: social protection, employment and training and labour demand.The policies reviewed in this document are essentially those identified in the Global Jobs Pact adopted by the International Labour Conference in June 2009. The report implicitly suggests that a combination of measures usually tends to produce better and more lasting effects than a series of isolated measures. Critical mass matters. But no attempt is made here at analysing optimal combinations. This is left to more detailed country studies and cross-country comparisons. |
