All publications: Costa Rica
Facilitator's Manual
Competency-Based Training for apprentice trainers in companies
ILO Brief
Closing gender gaps in vocational training: Good practices of the National Training Institute (INA) of Costa Rica
The experience of the National Training Institute (INA) of Costa Rica shows how it is possible to make progress in closing gender gaps between men and women in skills development, based on a sustained institutional approach. Since the adoption of...
Costa Rica
Addressing Forced Labour and the Labour Dimension of Responsible Business Conduct
In Costa Rica, the ILO developed the Fair Recruitment Toolbox for the sugar industry that included guidelines for preventing and addressing forced labour risks hence ensuring alignment with the local context related to labour recruitment practices...
Scope and implementation of international social security agreements: Analysis in the member countries of the RCM
This report presents an analysis of the scope and implementation of international social security agreements in the member countries of the Regional Conference on Migration (hereafter, RCM), including bilateral and multilateral agreements between...
GB.354/INS/9/3 - Third Supplementary Report
Report of the Committee set up to examine the representation alleging non-observance by Costa Rica of Conventions Nos 87, 98 and 135
Latin America and the Caribbean
Survey on workers on web-based digital platforms
This report summarises a survey of 1,153 digital platform workers in Latin America and the Caribbean. It analyses their profile, working conditions and income, revealing precariousness, informality and lack of social protection. 52% use these...
Executive summary
Women's participation in temporary labour migration programmes
This technical note analyses how the content of bilateral labour migration agreements, as well as the procedures and practical operation oftemporary labour migration programmes in the Central and North American region, provide conditions for access,...
Social Finance Brief: Pacífico Seguros
Pacífico Seguros is Peru’s largest insurer in terms of premiums collected and second largest in terms of people insured. In this Social Finance Brief, we explore "Protected Business", an insurance product designed by Pacífico to cover the main risks...
Social Finance Brief: Insurance for MSMEs in Mexico
The ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility has been collaborating with the Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions to build inclusive insurance markets for excluded persons and for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the country. This...
Labour Overview series for Latin America and the Caribbean 2021
2021 Labour Overview, Latin America and the Caribbean - Executive Summary
The 2021 Employment Outlook describes a mixed bag scenario for employment and suggests that pre-pandemic levels will be reached by 2023 or even 2024.
Regional or country brief
Women in Business in Central America
Case studies from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico (Chihuahua) and Panama show that women’s success as business owners and employers can be influenced by the size of their enterprise, the economic sectors in which they operate, their education and...
Countries in Focus on Statistics of Cooperatives
Statistics on Cooperatives Country in Focus: Costa Rica
Moving Up the Global Value Chain: The case of Intel Costa Rica. (ILO Americas 2017/8)
As is natural in these narratives, although 1998 is a milestone, the story did not begin in that year. Nor does it end with the announcement in 2014 of the alleged "withdrawal" of Intel from Costa Rica.
P&B Outcome 17 (Discrimination in employment and occupation is eliminated) - Final evaluation summary
Evaluation consultant: Magali Bonne-Moreau
Innovations in extending social insurance coverage to independent workers: Experiences from Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Costa Rica,...
Protecting people and the environment: Lessons learnt from Brazil’s Bolsa Verde, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, South Africa and 56...
This working paper provides an overview of international experiences that combine social and environmental objectives within one programme and extract some lessons learned from existing PES schemes that may be useful when designing, implementing and...
Outcome 10: Thematic funding for 2014-15 (Norway-ILO Partnership Programme 2012-15) - Final Evaluation Summary
Project: GLO/14/60/NOR
Extension of Social Security - Working Paper - ESS 54
Protecting people and the environment. Lessons learnt from Brazil's Bolsa Verde, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, South Africa and 56...
This working paper provides an overview of 56 Payments for Environmental Services (PES) experiences in 19 countries from the global south that combine social protection and environmental objectives within one programme.
Promoting respect for informal workers' labour rights in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Honduras (Midterm Evaluation Summary)
Project: RLA/12/01/USA - Evaluation Consultants: Gabriela León Segura and Andrea Meneses Rojas
Informal economy
Transition to the formal economy in Latin America and the Caribbean
Based on the recent developments that took place in the region, the main aim of this report is to depict the regional patterns in policies and outcomes and obtain lessons from them to enrich the discussion on better policies to handle the...