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TECHNICAL MEETING
THE ROLE OF VOCATIONAL
TRAINING IN PRODUCTIVITY,
EMPLOYMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Salvador, Bahia (Brasil), 20-21 September, 2007
Information Sheet
See also:
ILO Report: Key indicators of the labour market (KILM). 5th Edition, Geneva 2007New ILO report says US leads the world in labour productivity, some regions are catching up, most lag behind. Press release ILO/07/47. 02 September 2007.
Section Training and Productivity in this Web Site
The connection between capacity development and growth of productivity is a subject that is receiving increasing recognition within the analysis of country competitiveness. Not only at the world level, but also regionally and sub-regionally, the effect of training and the educational level of workers can be noticed in the competitiveness of economies.
Recent ILO research has shown up the multiple facets of productivity, employment and poverty (World Employment Report 2007, 2005, 2002, as well as the Changing World of Work 2006). Such analyses have provided new ideas on how productivity and employment growth are linked both in the short term and the long term. Likewise they have made possible a perspective for public policies and social dialogue that includes the objective of maintaining harmonious growth of productivity and employment.
Because of their contribution to the development of skills and competencies, vocational training institutions are a source of comparative advantage to promote growth in productivity and to reflect said growth in more and better jobs. Other critical factors include the social dialogue, macroeconomic policies to increase growth opportunities that help to overcome poverty, a sustainable business environment and investments in basic education, health and physical infrastructure. Better access to relevant vocational training places more workers in a position to take part in the benefits of technological progress and economic growth and is an important policy instrument to ensure a fair and efficient process of adjustment to technological change.
Papers
| Training and productivity, an overview | |
| * SKILLS and Employability Department, ILO. Skills for productivity, Skills for productivity, employment growth and employment growth and development: development: the ILO perspective (presentation) | |
| Vocational training and productivity (sectoral and enterprise views) | |
| * INFOTEP y SIMAPRO. Dominican Republic. INFOTEP and SIMAPRO. Training and Productivity Experience in the Dominican Republic. Juan Casilla y Leonard Mertens. September 2007. (word document) | |
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* SENAI. Brasil. Institutional Environment Favorable to Technological Diffusion. National Industry Confederation. National Industrial Learning Service. National Department. Brasília 2007. Série Estudos Metodológicos. (word document) |
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| * SENATI. Perú. Occupational health and safety in vocational training for productivity, employment growth and development. SENATI's experience. Patricia Llanos Goyena. Setiembre 2007. (word document) | |
| Vocational training and productivity: a national view | |
| * HEART-NTA. Jamaica. Skill Development, Productivity Improvement and the Impact of HEART Trust-NTA in Jamaica. Tom McArdle. September 2007. (word document) (presentation) | |
| * SENA. Colombia . Productivity, entrepreneurship and employment. Juan Camilo Montes Pineda. SENA's General Director Advisor. September 2007. (word document) | |
| Vocational training and productivity in low-income sectors | |
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* POCET/CENET. Honduras. The experience of education for work of the POCET/CENET, Honduras 1990-2007. (Education/training and increased productivity). Mario Hugo Rosal G. San José ILO Sub-regional Office. September 2007. (word document) |
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