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  1. Active labour market programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean
    evicence from a meta analysis
    Author: Escudero, Verónica; Kluve, Jochen; López Mourelo, Elva; Pignatti, Clemente
    Published: October 2017
    Publisher:  RWI Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen, Germany

    We present a systematic collection and assessment of impact evaluations of active labour market programmes (ALMP) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The paper delineates the strategy to compile a novel meta database and provides a narrative... more

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    We present a systematic collection and assessment of impact evaluations of active labour market programmes (ALMP) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The paper delineates the strategy to compile a novel meta database and provides a narrative review of 51 studies. Based on these studies, the quantitative analysis extracts a sample of 296 impact estimates, and uses meta regression models to analyse systematic patterns in the data. In addition to analysing earnings and employment outcomes as in previous meta analyses, we also code and investigate measures of job quality, such as the effects on hours worked and formality. We find that ALMPs in LAC are particularly effective in increasing the probability of having a formal job, compared to other outcomes. Our results also show that training programmes are slightly more effective than other types of interventions. Moreover, when looking at the sample of training programmes alone, we observe that formal employment is also the outcome category that is most likely to be impacted positively by these programmes. In terms of targeting, we find that ALMPs in the region work better for women than for men, and for youth compared to prime-age workers. Finally, medium-run estimates are not more likely to be positive than short-run estimates, while programmes of short duration (4 months or less) are significantly less likely to produce positive effects compared to longer interventions.

     
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    Series: Ruhr economic papers ; # 715
    Subjects: Aktivierende Arbeitsmarktpolitik; Beschäftigungseffekt; Einkommenseffekt; Wirkungsanalyse; Meta-Analyse; Lateinamerika; Karibischer Raum
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  2. Understanding the drivers of the youth labour market in Kenya
    Author: Escudero, Verónica; López Mourelo, Elva
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  ILO, Geneva

    This paper examines the macroeconomic and individual elements affecting youth unemployment and inactivity in Kenya with a view to discussing the elements that are important for the youth labour market challenges. This paper identifies the macro and... more

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    This paper examines the macroeconomic and individual elements affecting youth unemployment and inactivity in Kenya with a view to discussing the elements that are important for the youth labour market challenges. This paper identifies the macro and microeconomic determinants of youth unemployment and inactivity rates. It finds that although the size of the youth cohort does have significant implications for the status of youth in the labour market, aggregate labour market conditions have a greater influence. The paper also finds a large gap between the youth and the overall employment elasticities in the country. This implies that although fostering economic growth and ensuring economic sustainability are important, they are not sufficient to address youth challenges. Efforts will need to be focused on improving the youth employment content of growth. The results from the microeconometric analysis show that boosting tertiary school attendance and providing targeted vocational training to young people (particularly women) would be the most effective measures for improving youth employability in the country.

     
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    Series: ILO research paper ; no. 8
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  3. What has been driving work-to-work transitions in the emerging world?
    a comparative study of Indonesia and South Africa
    Author: Brehm, Johannes; Doku, Angela; Escudero, Verónica
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    There is little knowledge about the shape, prominence and drivers of work-to-work transitions in low- and middle-income countries. This paper examines these elements in the context of South Africa and Indonesia - two middle-income countries with... more

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    There is little knowledge about the shape, prominence and drivers of work-to-work transitions in low- and middle-income countries. This paper examines these elements in the context of South Africa and Indonesia - two middle-income countries with similar development levels yet different labour market characteristics. We employ a comparative cross-country methodology using long-term panel data. This enables us to examine work-to-work transitions across and within age cohorts and exploit the panel structure of the data through a fixed-effects model to identify the drivers of these transitions. We find that while the prominent transition types differ between the two countries, younger workers have higher transition rates. Moreover, we find that precarious forms of employment are persistent: individuals who start their careers at the bottom of the transition ladder (i.e., in informal work, the agriculture sector or a low-skill occupation) are less likely to transition out of this situation. Finally, we unveil suggestive evidence that computer and socioemotional skills play a role in encouraging certain transitions in South Africa and Indonesia, respectively.

     
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    ISBN: 9789220387610; 9789220387627; 9789220387634; 9789220387641
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    Series: ILO working paper / International Labour Organization ; 89 (March 2023)
    Subjects: work; decent work; employment; informal employment; rural employment; self employment; youth employment; casual work; occupational qualification; skills; economic sectors; research
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  4. The effects of financial globalization on global imbalances, employment and inequality
    Author: Ernst, Ekkehard; Escudero, Verónica
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Internat. Inst. for Labour Studies, Geneva

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    ISBN: 9789290148906
    Series: Discussion paper / International Institute for Labour Studies ; 191
    Subjects: Internationaler Finanzmarkt; Finanzmarktregulierung; Wirtschaftswachstum; Arbeitsmarkt; Einkommensverteilung; Welt
    Scope: V, 31 S., graph. Darst.
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    Literaturverz. S. 27 - 30
  5. Effects of the crisis on the financial sector
    trends and policy issues
    Author: Escudero, Verónica
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Internat. Inst. for Labour Studies, Geneva

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    ISBN: 9789290149125
    Series: Discussion paper / International Institute for Labour Studies ; 197
    Subjects: Finanzsektor; Finanzkrise; Wirtschaftskrise; EU-Staaten; Großbritannien; USA
    Scope: VI, 34 S., graph. Darst.
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    Literaturverz. S. 26
  6. Are active labour market policies effective in activating and integrating low-skilled individuals?
    an international comparison
    Author: Escudero, Verónica
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques, Paris

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    Series: Working paper / Paris School of Economics ; 2015-01
    Subjects: unemployment; employment; participation rate; ALMPs; implementation; start-up incentives
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  7. Using online vacancy and job applicants' data to study skills dynamics
    Author: Bennett, Fidel; Escudero, Verónica; Liepmann, Hannah; Podjanin, Ana
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    We assess whether online data on vacancies and applications to a job board are a suitable source for studying skills dynamics outside of Europe and the United States, where a rich literature has examined skills dynamics using online vacancy data.... more

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    We assess whether online data on vacancies and applications to a job board are a suitable source for studying skills dynamics outside of Europe and the United States, where a rich literature has examined skills dynamics using online vacancy data. Yet, the knowledge on skills dynamics is scarce for other countries, irrespective of their level of development. We first propose a taxonomy that systematically aggregates three broad categories of skills - cognitive, socioemotional and manual - and fourteen commonly observed and recognizable skills sub-categories, which we define based on unique skills identified through keywords and expressions. Our aim is to develop a taxonomy that is comprehensive but succinct, suitable for the labour market realities of developing and emerging economies and adapted to online vacancies and applicants' data. Using machine-learning techniques, we then develop a methodology that allows implementing the skills taxonomy in online vacancy and applicants' data, thus capturing both the supply and the demand side. Implementing the methodology with Uruguayan data from the job board BuscoJobs, we assign skills to 64 per cent of applicants' employment spells and 94 per cent of vacancies. We consider this a successful implementation since the exploited text information often does not follow a standardized format. The advantage of our approach is its reliance on data that is currently available in many countries across the world, thereby allowing for country-specific analysis that does not need to assume that occupational skills bundles are the same across countries. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to explore this approach in the context of emerging economies. 4950

     
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    Series: ILO working paper / International Labour Organization ; 75 (August 2022)
    Subjects: labour economics; employment; informal employment; occupational classification; ISCO; skilled workers; unskilled workers; occupational qualification; skills; lifelong learning; information and communication technologies; Internet; technological change; data collecting; databases
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  8. Using online vacancy and job applicants' data to study skills dynamics
    Author: Bennett, Fidel; Escudero, Verónica; Liepmann, Hannah; Podjanin, Ana
    Published: August 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    We assess whether online data on vacancies and applications to a job board are a suitable source for studying skills dynamics outside of Europe and the United States, where a rich literature has examined skills dynamics using online vacancy data.... more

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    We assess whether online data on vacancies and applications to a job board are a suitable source for studying skills dynamics outside of Europe and the United States, where a rich literature has examined skills dynamics using online vacancy data. Yet, the knowledge on skills dynamics is scarce for other countries, irrespective of their level of development. We first propose a taxonomy that systematically aggregates three broad categories of skills - cognitive, socioemotional and manual - and fourteen commonly observed and recognizable skills sub-categories, which we define based on unique skills identified through keywords and expressions. Our aim is to develop a taxonomy that is comprehensive but succinct, suitable for the labour market realities of developing and emerging economies and adapted to online vacancies and applicants' data. Using machine-learning techniques, we then develop a methodology that allows implementing the skills taxonomy in online vacancy and applicants' data, thus capturing both the supply and the demand side. Implementing the methodology with Uruguayan data from the job board BuscoJobs, we assign skills to 64 per cent of applicants' employment spells and 94 per cent of vacancies. We consider this a successful implementation since the exploited text information often does not follow a standardized format. The advantage of our approach is its reliance on data that is currently available in many countries across the world, thereby allowing for country-specific analysis that does not need to assume that occupational skills bundles are the same across countries. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to explore this approach in the context of emerging economies.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15506
    Subjects: online data; job board; skills dynamics; skills taxonomy; natural language processing
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  9. Why should we integrate income and employment support?
    a conceptual and empirical investigation
    Author: Asenjo, Antonia; Escudero, Verónica; Liepmann, Hannah
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes - such as unemployment insurance and social assistance - has been a key component of social protection in high-income countries since the 1990s, with a rich literature... more

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    The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes - such as unemployment insurance and social assistance - has been a key component of social protection in high-income countries since the 1990s, with a rich literature reviewing its effects and implementation characteristics. More recently, this approach has spread beyond high-income economies, and is prominent today in many middle-income economies. Yet, despite the increasing adoption of integrated approaches, their conceptual and practical applications have not been studied in detail outside of high-income countries. This paper conceptualizes, for the first time, the implementation of integrated approaches, focusing on low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). We first develop a conceptual framework to understand how integrated policies can address labour market challenges, exploring the theoretical effects they exert on selected labour market and social dimensions. We then contrast these theoretical expectations with findings from the empirical literature on the effectiveness of integrated approaches. While many empirical studies find positive effects across different labour market dimensions, this is evidently not always the case. To reconcile this discrepancy, we investigate the design and implementation of integrated approaches across LMIC and identify factors which contribute to their effectiveness.

     
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    Series: ILO working paper / International Labour Organization ; 72 (July 2022)
    Subjects: decent work; employment; informal employment; employment policy; employment creation; employment services; unemployment; conditions of employment; remuneration; low wages; social assistance; unemployment benefits; training; skills; lifelong learning; inequality; poverty; working poor; enterprise creation; household income; informal economy
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  10. Why should we integrate income and employment support?
    a conceptual and empirical investigation
    Author: Asenjo, Antonia; Escudero, Verónica; Liepmann, Hannah
    Published: June 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes - such as unemployment insurance and social assistance - has been a key component of social protection in high-income countries since the 1990s, with a rich literature... more

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    The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes - such as unemployment insurance and social assistance - has been a key component of social protection in high-income countries since the 1990s, with a rich literature reviewing its effects and implementation characteristics. More recently, this approach has spread beyond high-income economies, and is prominent today in many middle-income economies. Yet, despite the increasing adoption of integrated approaches, their conceptual and practical applications have not been studied in detail outside of high-income countries. This paper conceptualizes, for the first time, the implementation of integrated approaches, focusing on low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). We first develop a conceptual framework to understand how integrated policies can address labour market challenges, exploring the theoretical effects they exert on selected labour market and social dimensions. We then contrast these theoretical expectations with findings from the empirical literature on the effectiveness of integrated approaches. While many empirical studies find positive effects across different labour market dimensions, this is evidently not always the case. To reconcile this discrepancy, we investigate the design and implementation of integrated approaches across LMIC and identify factors which contribute to their effectiveness.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15401
    Subjects: active labour market policies; unemployment insurance; cash transfers; policy integration; low- and middle-income countries
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  11. More is more
    livelihood interventions and child labor in the agricultural sector
    Author: Chiodi, Vera; Escudero, Verónica
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    What works to reduce child labor in agriculture? In this paper, we evaluate two randomized livelihood intervention programs, aimed to reduce child labor, particularly in its most exploitative forms, in rural areas of Peru and the Philippines. In the... more

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    What works to reduce child labor in agriculture? In this paper, we evaluate two randomized livelihood intervention programs, aimed to reduce child labor, particularly in its most exploitative forms, in rural areas of Peru and the Philippines. In the first randomized experiment, we evaluate a livelihood intervention provided to farmers in Peru that use the labor of their children on their family farms, accompanied by an education intervention aimed to improve the quality of schools and an awareness-raising intervention. In the second randomized experiment, we evaluate the incremental effect of the livelihood intervention implemented within a similar program in the Philippines, focused on the sugarcane agricultural sector. We find that when livelihood interventions were provided alone, they did not manage to improve economic conditions, and hence generally failed to reduce child labor rates in rural areas. However, when the livelihood intervention was combined with measures to improve the quality of education in Peru, we see a reduction in hazardous child labor and child labor overall. Awareness-raising interventions, aimed at changing the perceptions of parents through community interaction, appear to have also had an effect in the reduction of child labor, and these effects were reinforced by education interventions. Results indicate that a comprehensive approach including livelihood support with education and awareness-raising components is a more effective way to reduce child labor and hazardous labor for children in the agricultural sector.

     
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    Series: ILO working paper / International Labour Organization ; 18 (12/2020)
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  12. Utilización de datos en línea de vacantes y solicitantes de empleo para estudiar la dinámica de las competencias laborales
    Author: Bennett, Fidel; Escudero, Verónica; Liepmann, Hannah; Podjanin, Ana
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Organización Internacional del Trabajo, Ginebra, Suiza

    We assess whether online data on vacancies and applications to a job board are a suitable source for studying skills dynamics outside of Europe and the United States, where a rich literature has examined skills dynamics using online vacancy data.... more

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    We assess whether online data on vacancies and applications to a job board are a suitable source for studying skills dynamics outside of Europe and the United States, where a rich literature has examined skills dynamics using online vacancy data. Yet, the knowledge on skills dynamics is scarce for other countries, irrespective of their level of development. We first propose a taxonomy that systematically aggregates three broad categories of skills - cognitive, socioemotional and manual - and fourteen commonly observed and recognizable skills sub-categories, which we define based on unique skills identified through keywords and expressions. Our aim is to develop a taxonomy that is comprehensive but succinct, suitable for the labour market realities of developing and emerging economies and adapted to online vacancies and applicants' data. Using machine-learning techniques, we then develop a methodology that allows implementing the skills taxonomy in online vacancy and applicants' data, thus capturing both the supply and the demand side. Implementing the methodology with Uruguayan data from the job board BuscoJobs, we assign skills to 64 per cent of applicants' employment spells and 94 per cent of vacancies. We consider this a successful implementation since the exploited text information often does not follow a standardized format. The advantage of our approach is its reliance on data that is currently available in many countries across the world, thereby allowing for country-specific analysis that does not need to assume that occupational skills bundles are the same across countries. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to explore this approach in the context of emerging economies.

     
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    ISBN: 9789220388389; 9789220388396; 9789220388402; 9789220388419
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    Series: Documento de trabajo de la OIT / Organización Internacional del Trabajo ; 75 (Abril 2023)
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