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Investing in Youth: Peru
Fecha de publicación: 28 May. 2019
Fuente: Organizaciones internacionales
The series Investing in Youth builds on the expertise of the OECD on youth employment, social support and skills. It covers both OECD countries and countries in the process of accession to the OECD, as well as some emerging economies.

The report provides a detailed diagnosis of youth policies in the areas of social, employment, education and training policies. Its main focus is on young people who are not in employment, education or training (the 'NEETs').

Earlier reviews in the same series have looked at youth policies in Brazil (2014), Latvia and Tunisia (2015), Australia, Lithuania and Sweden (2016), Japan (2017), and Norway (2018).

https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264305823-en
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Understanding the Dynamics of Labor Income Inequality in Latin America
Fecha de publicación: 18 Nov. 2016
Fuente: Otras fuentes
Since the early 2000s, after a long period of wide and persistent gaps, Latin America has experienced a steady decline in income inequality. This paper presents evidence of a trend reversal in labor income inequality, which is considered the main factor behind such a decline in income inequality across the region. The analysis shows that, while labor income inequality increased during the 1990s, with heterogeneous experiences across countries, it fell in a synchronized way across countries beginning in the early 2000s. This systematic decline was supported by an expansion in real hourly earnings among the bottom of the wage distribution and, to a lesser extent, the middle part of the earnings distribution, thus reducing upper and lower tail inequality. This trend reversal is explained by a lower dispersion of earnings among workers with observable different attributes and by a much less extensive dispersion of residual labor inequality. Regarding the earnings differentials among workers with observable different attributes, the analysis concludes that the decline in labor inequality in Latin America has been closely associated with a reduction in the college/primary education premium and in the urban-rural earnings gap, coupled with a steady drop in the high school/primary education premium, which accelerated markedly since the 2000s, as well as a reduction in the experience premium across all age groups.
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A skills beyond school review of Peru
Fecha de publicación: 19 Oct. 2016
Fuente: Organizaciones internacionales
Vocational education and training (VET) programmes are facing rapid change and intensifying challenges. How can employers and unions be engaged? How can work based learning be used? How can teachers and trainers be effectively prepared? How should postsecondary programmes be structured? This country report looks at these and other questions in the context of Peru.

The report has six chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of Peru’s education and training system and includes an in-depth discussion of its key strengths and challenges. Chapter two explores how Peru can improve the alignment between the supply of VET programmes and the demands of the labour market. Chapter three focuses on strategies for improving the quality in its VET programmes. The fourth chapter examines the fragmented architecture of Peru’s education and training system and provides recommendations on how to facilitate student transitions from one system or level to the next. Chapter five focuses on the need to address inequities in access to high-quality VET, particularly for student from low-income, rural, and historically disadvantaged groups. The final chapter explores how Peru can help students make informed choices about their education and training through better career navigation and consumer information services.

DOI: 10.1787/9789264265400-en
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¿Cómo mejorar las oportunidades de inserción laboral de los jóvenes en América Latina?
Fecha de publicación: 07 Oct. 2016
Fuente: Otras fuentes
Esta nota técnica tiene como principal objetivo contribuir a cubrir ese vacío en la literatura, presentando nueva evidencia acerca de la efectividad de los programas de capacitación laboral para jóvenes que pueda servir para mejorar su diseño y su implementación. El análisis se centra en el estudio de seis programas de capacitación e inserción laboral de jóvenes en la región que operan o fueron implementados en Colombia, Honduras, México, Panamá, Perú y República Dominicana. Como insumo para la elaboración de este trabajo se utilizan los resultados de las evaluaciones de impacto de algunos de estos programas, así como un análisis estadístico de encuestas realizadas a jóvenes y a firmas, y los resultados de un trabajo de campo realizado en cuatro de estos países, que implicó la realización de entrevistas en profundidad a centros de capacitación, empresarios y hacedores de política. Específicamente, el documento realiza dos contribuciones principales En primer lugar, examina de manera crítica la evidencia disponible sobre el impacto de estos programas y propone una agenda de investigación cuyo desarrollo permitirá llenar vacíos esenciales en el conocimiento sobre el funcionamiento y el impacto de los programas para jóvenes en ALC. En segundo lugar, a partir de un análisis de los factores que contribuyen al éxito de estos programas, tanto a nivel del diseño como de la implementación, se presenta una serie de recomendaciones para los hacedores de política sobre qué hacer y qué evitar al encarar el diseño de un programa de capacitación para jóvenes.