International organizations

Information is gathered from other international organizations that promote skills development and the transition from education and training to work. The Interagency Group on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (IAG-TVET) was established in 2009 to share research findings, coordinate joint research endeavours, and improve collaboration among organizations working at the international and national levels.

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Protección y formación: instituciones para mejorar la inserción laboral en América Latina y Asia

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															Protección y formación: instituciones para mejorar la inserción laboral en América Latina y Asia
													

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Spanish

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International organizations

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international-organizations

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Training quality and relevance

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training-quality-and-relevance

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Research papers

Working papers, reports, and other publications from international organizations, academic institutions and bilateral agencies. Research findings to stimulate informed debate on skills, employment and productivity issues.

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Publication Date:

20 Oct 2016

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wcmstest4_183893.pdf

El mundo del trabajo es objeto de grandes transformaciones. Estas transformaciones causan un fuerte impacto en los mercados laborales y generan nuevos retos para sus instituciones, entre ellas, las relacionadas con la protección contra el desempleo y con la formación profesional y capacitación, que son clave para la creación de empleo pleno y productivo y el trabajo decente para todas y todos. Por una parte, la constante transformación de los mercados de trabajo y la heterogeneidad creciente de las relaciones laborales generan grandes desafíos para el diseño de instrumentos de protección contra el desempleo. Por otra parte, una adecuada cualificación de la fuerza de trabajo es un elemento clave para cualquier estrategia de desarrollo que aspire a centrar el crecimiento económico en la innovación y el conocimiento. Esto implica un gran reto para los sistemas nacionales de formación profesional y capacitación, que deben hacer frente a una diversidad creciente tanto de las demandas del sector productivo como de las personas que buscan integrarse de manera digna al mercado laboral.

Mediante un análisis de las experiencias recientes de los países de América Latina y Asia en relación con los sistemas de protección contra el desempleo y la formación profesional y capacitación, así como de los retos que enfrentan para el desarrollo de estas instituciones laborales, este libro procura contribuir al debate sobre el perfeccionamiento de instituciones laborales que fomenten el desarrollo sostenible en un mundo del trabajo cambiante.

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Access to training

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access-to-training

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683

Education and training

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education-and-training

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116

Employability

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employability

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643

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Americas

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A skills beyond school review of Peru

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A skills beyond school review of Peru

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International organizations

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international-organizations

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Training quality and relevance

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training-quality-and-relevance

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Research papers

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19 Oct 2016

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wcmstest4_183889.pdf

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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School-to-work transition

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school-to-work-transition

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652

TVET systems

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tvet-systems

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661

Vocational training

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vocational-training

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124

Youth

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youth

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Americas

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Peru

Gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment: Differentiated pathways out of poverty status, trends and gaps

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															Gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment: Differentiated pathways out of poverty status, trends and gaps 
													

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ILO

The International Labour Organization is the tripartite U.N. agency that promotes Decent Work through employment, social security, labour standards and social dialogue. Its work on skills development is guided by the conceptual framework on Skills to improve productivity, employment growth, and development agreed in 2008 by representatives of Governments, Employers’ Associations and Workers’ Associations. Research, policy advice, and pilot projects and technical cooperation programmes to apply good practices in different circumstances across its 185 member States aims to boost the employability of workers, the productivity and competitiveness of enterprises, and the inclusiveness of economic growth. The ILO Secretariat in offices in 40 countries works with Ministries of Labour, employers’ organizations, and trade unions to integrate skills development into national and sector development strategies in order to better meet current labour market needs and to prepare for the jobs of the future; to expand access to employment-related training so that youth, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups are better able to acquire skills and secure productive and decent work; and to improve the ability of public employment services to provide career guidance, maintain labour exchange services, and deliver active labour market programmes.For more information regarding the ILO’s work on skills and employability go to: http://www.ilo.org/skills/lang--en/index.htm; for ILO/Cinterfor's Knowledge Management Plarform, see: http://www.oitcinterfor.org

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International organizations

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international-organizations

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Gender equality

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Women represent both half of the world's population – and half the world's economic potential. Their participation in the labour market reduces poverty because they often invest 90 per cent of their income in the well-being, education and nutrition of their families. Yet labour force participation by women has stagnated at about 55 per cent globally since 2010. Moreover, women are disproportionately represented in precarious work – low-paid, low-skilled and insecure jobs.

Training plays an important role in the pursuit of equality of opportunity and treatment for women and men in the world of work. Yet women often lack access to technical and vocational education and training. Many also lack the basic functional skills, such as literacy and numeracy, to participate meaningfully in the work force. Overcoming this challenge requires the adoption of a life-cycle approach. This includes improving girls’ access to basic education; overcoming logistic, economic and cultural barriers to apprenticeships and to secondary and vocational training for young women; and meeting the training needs of women re-entering the labour market and of older women who have not had equal access to opportunities for lifelong learning.

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gender-equality

Rural employment

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Eight out of 10 of the world’s working poor who live on US $1.25 per day live in rural areas, where many are caught in vulnerable employment, especially in agriculture.Flourishing rural areas are vital to regional and national development. Yet, rural economies tend to face a wide range of challenges that urban areas are more likely to overcome. These include access to transportation, sanitation and health services, and a consumer base in close proximity to support small and medium enterprise development. Women and men working in rural areas also face difficulties associated with a paucity of economic opportunities, under investment, poor infrastructure and public services, including education, and, in many cases, weak governance and underdeveloped markets.

Education, entrepreneurship, and physical and social infrastructure all play an important role in developing rural regions. Skills are central to improving employability and livelihood opportunities, reducing poverty, enhancing productivity and promoting environmentally sustainable development.

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Research papers

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Publication Date:

17 Oct 2016

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This publication summarizes the major outcomes of a technical workshop on the gender dimensions of rural employment organized by FAO, IFAD and the ILO, held from 31 March to 2 April 2009. The cornerstone of this publication’s analysis is the United Nation’s Decent Work Agenda, which calls for creating better jobs for both women and men, obtaining social protection for all rural workers, ensuring that labour standards apply to all rural workers and promoting rural institutions that equally represent women’s and men’s interests.

The publication is structured into three main parts. Part 1 is an overview presenting issues related to gender equality and rural employment for poverty reduction, that includes the construction of a gender analytical framework across regions and contexts. This section also identifies appropriate policy responses and gender based constraints to the achievement of decent work for all. Part 2 outlines and analyses key issues from the forty papers presented at the workshop, and provides abstracts of all those papers. Finally Part 3 offers a selection of six workshop papers that cover thematic areas of particular relevance to discussions about gender and rural employment.

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Gender

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Poverty

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poverty

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Rural development

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rural-development

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152

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Global

Global Education Monitoring Report: Gender Review 2016

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Global Education Monitoring Report: Gender Review 2016

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French

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International organizations

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international-organizations

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Gender equality

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gender-equality

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Research papers

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17 Oct 2016

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Creating sustainable futures for all

The Gender Review of the 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) recognizes and largely focuses on the challenges facing girls and women because of the disproportionate overall disadvantage they continue to experience in and beyond education. But it also understands that gender disadvantage can be experienced by boys and men, and that gender equality involves males, relationships and power. Gender inequality affects us all. Achieving gender equality must involve us all.

The Gender Review discusses global and regional trends in achieving parity in education access, participation and completion and in selected learning outcomes, stressing that there is much room for progress. It then shifts to an evidence-based discussion of relationships between education, gender and sustainable development by discussing work, civic and political engagement and leadership, as well as health and well-being. It concludes with ways forward: what action is implied by evidence and data for achieving more gender-equal societies and how progress towards such societies is to be measured.

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Education and training

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education-and-training

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Globalization

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globalization

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Women

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women

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Global

Employment and skills strategies in Southeast Asia: Setting the Scene

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Employment and skills strategies in Southeast Asia: Setting the Scene

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English

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International organizations

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international-organizations

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Training quality and relevance

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training-quality-and-relevance

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Research papers

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Publication Date:

12 Oct 2016

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The Southeast Asian region has experienced some of the highest growth rates in the world, with investments in skills playing a significant role in helping national economies to adjust to changes in working practices, advances in technology, and challenges associated with globalisation. In some countries this process has been more successfully managed and significant advances have been achieved in growth rates and employment levels, but in others it has resulted in stagnation of economic sectors, underemployment, rising unemployment levels and social exclusion for large sections of the society.

This report identifies and discusses employment and skills strategies in Southeast Asia. The report is divided into five sections. Section two, following the introduction, discusses the economic and labour market context. Section three discusses key issues for employment and skills development. Section four discusses policy responses and initiatives; and section five briefly suggests key issues of employment and skills development in Southeast Asia for further discussion and analysis.

DOI: 10.1787/5kmbjglh34r5-en

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Skills and training policy

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Skills mismatch

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654

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Asia and the Pacific

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The skills of Polish emigrants

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The skills of Polish emigrants

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English

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International organizations

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Access to training

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Access for all to good quality education, vocational training and workplace learning is a fundamental principle of social cohesion and economic growth. Some groups of people may require targeted attention if they are to benefit from education, training and employment opportunities.

This is particularly the case for disadvantaged youth, lower skilled workers, people with disabilities, and people in rural communities. The attractiveness of vocational education and training is enhanced when combined with entrepreneurship training and when public policies encourage utilization of higher skills by business.

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Migrant workers

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According to the ILO global estimates on migrant workers, there were around 164 million migrant workers in 2017.

Migrant workers contribute to growth and development in their countries of destination, while countries of origin greatly benefit from their remittances and the skills acquired during their migration experience. Yet, many migrant workers face challenges in accessing quality training and decent jobs including under-utilization of skills, a lack of employment or training opportunities, lack of information, and exploitation of low-skilled workers.

To address these challenges, countries need to strengthen skills anticipation systems to inform migration policies, increase access to education and training, and establish bilateral or multilateral recognition of qualifications and skills.

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12 Oct 2016

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Based on the OECD data from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) this paper sheds light on the skills of migrants. In line with earlier research the data show that migrants from Poland are more likely to have a tertiary degree than peers at home, but they often work in elementary professions abroad that do not match these high qualifications. This may well be at least partly a language issue, as migrants from Poland resemble migrants from other low-income countries in that their numeracy and literacy skills in the language of their host country is markedly lower than the average across all PIAAC participants, migrants or not. This gap is smaller, though, when looking only at migrants who report having been tested in a language that they use often and master well. The data reveal an interesting difference with migrants from higher-income countries, as their test results do not differ from the average, although they face the same language issues as other migrants. The reason may well be that only migrants from low-income countries can hope to earn higher wages abroad even if they work in low-skill professions, while migrants from higher-income countries need to master the language of their host country to do well. In fact, Polish migrants earn higher wages than their peers who stayed at home, even though they are particularly often overqualified.

DOI: 10.1787/5jlpq7tg3hxs-en

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Labour migration

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labour-migration

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Migrant workers

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migrant-workers

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681

Skills utilization

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skills-utilization

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Europe and Central Asia

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Poland

Youth: Realities and challenges for achieving development with equality

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Youth: Realities and challenges for achieving development with equality

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English

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skpEng

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International organizations

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Youth employability

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Globally, nearly 68 million young women and men are looking for and available for work, and an estimated 123 million young people are working but living in poverty. The number who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) stands at 267 million, a majority of whom are young women. Significantly, young people are three times as likely as adults (25 years and older) to be unemployed.

Skills development is a primary means of enabling young people to make a smooth transition to work. A comprehensive approach is required to integrate young women and men in the labour market, including relevant and quality skills training, labour market information, career guidance and employment services, recognition of prior learning, incorporating entrepreneurship with training and effective skills forecasting. Improved basic education and core work skills are particularly important to enable youth to engage in lifelong learning as well as transition to the labour market.

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youth-employability

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07 Oct 2016

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wcmstest4_183081.pdf

This publication offers a portrayal of the opportunities for social inclusion afforded to young people in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a view to building stronger youth policies in the region. It begins by analyzing education and employment as a master key to the social inclusion of young people. The book sustains that the youth population must be included in the development processes if progress is to be made towards more egalitarian societies, not only because of the numbers of young people vis-à-vis the rest of the population, but also because of what these numbers mean in relation to dependency rates and the needs and issues particular to this stage of life.

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School-to-work transition

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school-to-work-transition

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652

Youth

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youth

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319

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Americas

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Hungary: Skilling up the next generation

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Hungary: Skilling up the next generation

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English

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english

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skpEng

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International organizations

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international-organizations

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Training quality and relevance

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skpTrainQR

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training-quality-and-relevance

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Research papers

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Publication Date:

06 Oct 2016

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An analysis of Hungary’s performance in the program for international student assessment Facing the prospects of rapid aging and demographic decline over the coming decades, Hungary needs a highly skilled workforce to help generate the productivity growth that it needs to continue fueling a convergence of its living standards with those of its West European neighbors. Skilling up Hungary’s workforce should start by equipping youth with the right cognitive and social-emotional foundation skills. International research has identified three dimensions of skills that matter for good employment outcomes and economic growth: cognitive skills, such as literacy, numeracy, creative and critical thinking, and problem-solving; social-emotional skills and behavioral traits, such as conscientiousness, grit, and openness to experience; and job- or occupation-specific technical skills, such as the ability to work as an engineer. Hungary can do significantly better in preparing its next generation with the right cognitive foundation skills.

This report focuses on cognitive skills and examines results for Hungary from the program for international student assessment (PISA), which assesses the mathematics, reading, and science competencies of 15-year-olds. This report lays out a policy agenda consisting of two parallel elements: first, improving socioeconomic conditions for children and youth in general and in school through policies targeted to the poor and disadvantaged such as welfare and employment policies for parents and education support for children. Second, promoting equity and reducing socioeconomic segregation in basic education through inclusive education policies.

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School-to-work transition

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school-to-work-transition

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652

Skills and training policy

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skills-and-training-policy

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666

Youth

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youth

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319

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Europe and Central Asia

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Hungary

Trade and employment challenges for policy research

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Trade and employment challenges for policy research

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English

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ILO

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ilo

International organizations

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international-organizations

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Monitoring and evaluation

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Measuring the outcomes of skills systems, policies and targeted programmes is essential in order to monitor and improve their effectiveness and relevance. Elements of sound assessment processes include: institutions to sustain feedback from employers and trainees; mechanisms to track labour market outcomes of training and systems of accountability that use this information; and, quantitative and qualitative labour market information and its dissemination to all stakeholders.

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05 Oct 2016

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This study provides an impartial view of what can be said, and with what degree of confidence, on the relationship between trade and employment, an often contentious issue of public debate. Its focus is on the connections between trade policies, and labour and social policies and it will be of interest to all those who are involved in this debate: academics and policy makers, economists, workers and employers, trade and union specialists.

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Trade

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Global

Upskilling, re-skilling and employing adult refugees

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Start Date:

03 Oct 2016

End Date:

19 Jun 2026

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Rome, Italy

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French

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International organizations

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Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.

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Migrant workers

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According to the ILO global estimates on migrant workers, there were around 164 million migrant workers in 2017.

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Policy and strategy

Recommendations and advice on resolving policy challenges related to skills development systems and their linkages to the world of work. Concise syntheses of experience from the international organizations.

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Cedefop and the OECD are co-organising a one day experts’ forum on the role of VET and VET-related measures to help adult refugees, including people in clear need of international protection, to quickly integrate in the labour market and on how countries have responded to the recent arrivals.

Cedefop and the OCedefop and the OECD are co-organising a one day experts’ forum on the role of VET and VET-related measures to help adult refugees, including people in clear need of international protection, to quickly integrate in the labour market and on how countries have responded to the recent arrivals.

The event aims at:

- supporting exchange of national experiences;
- discussing possible European VET and VET-related solutions that could support relocation of adult people in clear need of international protection on the European territory, favouring a rapid labour market integration and possible co-operation mechanisms between a transit country and a host country.

Discussions are expected to have both a technical and policy nature, and will be interdisciplinary with issues touching upon VET, active labour market policies and migration.ECD are co-organising a one day experts’ forum on the role of VET and VET-related measures to help adult refugees, including people in clear need of international protection, to quickly integrate in the labour market and on how countries have responded to the recent arrivals.

Upskilling, re-skilling and employing adult refugees

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