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Bi-national Agreement Promoting Decent Work for Migrant Domestic Workers in Paraguay-Argentina Migration Corridor

Domestic workers’ organizations and trade union confederations from Paraguay and Argentina signed a bi-national agreement in order to promote decent work for Paraguayan migrant domestic workers in Argentina. This was the main output of a bi-national...

Notes on Formalization

Employment formalization in Argentina: recent developments and the road ahead

Between 2003 and 2012, Argentina experienced a remarkable process of employment formalization. Non-registered wage employment (NWE) fell 15 percentage points; however, informality rates at the aggregate level remained relatively high, well above...

Maritime Labour Convention

Argentina ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

Argentina is the third Latin American country to ratify this landmark Convention, after Panama and Nicaragua.

Labour Standards

Argentina ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention

Argentina is the thirteenth ILO member State and the seventh Latin American member State to ratify this instrument that seeks to improve the working and living conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide.

ESS Paper Series (SECSOC) - ESS 44

Reversing pension privatization. The experience of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Hungary

A systematic analysis of the reforms of private pensions systems in four countries due to initial failures in design and performance after its implementation.

ILO Research paper No. 9

Labour formalization and declining inequality in Argentina and Brazil in 2000s: A dynamic approach

This paper analyses the processes of labour formalization in Brazil and Argentina and its interrelation with the evolution of income inequality over the 2000s. It also contributes to the debates on formalising the informal and how to reduce income...

Workers’ cooperatives in Argentina: The Self-administered Workers’ Association

This time is to be different-Lesson from Argentina for EU-crisis

Argentina and Paraguay signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support ILO Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers

Tripartite Commissions on Equal Opportunities of Argentina and Paraguay signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop different collaborative initiatives, among them - their role as advisory committee of the EU funded Global Action Programme on...

Employment policy implementation mechanisms: A synthesis based on country studies

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 161

Employment policy implementation mechanisms in Argentina

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 153

South-South and Triangular Cooperation

GSSD 2013 - Sustainable Development and Decent Work Solution Forum: Presentation 2: UOCRA, Argentina

The project aims to train workers, technicians and professionals of the construction sector to implement good environmental practices on construction sites. It also aims at promoting both the rational use of energy and the technical training in...

Feasibility study for a global business network on apprenticeship

Facing the Crisis in Europe: Reflections on the case of Argentina

Official visit

ILO head in Latin America: More, but also better jobs are needed

Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General, highlighted the need to turn informal employment into decent jobs in the formal sector. He spoke during a Latin America visit that took him to Buenos Aires and Lima.

Employment quality and segmented labor markets in Argentina 1990-2011, by Fabio Bertranou

Presentation by Fabio Bertranou (ILO Office in Argentina)during the Employment Quality in Segmented Labour Markets Research Workshop, 11-12 December 2012, ILO, Geneva

Labour in the Global South: Challenges and alternatives for workers

“Labour in the global South is an exciting contribution to the new field of global labour studies. It identifies in ten clearly written chapters the innovative and creative responses to the challenges facing labour worldwide.” −Edward Webster,...

ILO Briefing Notes. Decent Work in Argentina

Progress in Consolidating Social Protection in Argentina

Desk review of research on HIV/AIDS in the world of work

This desk review was conducted by ILO/AIDS as part of the Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV workplace policies/programmes and private sector engagement (IATT/WPPS). It is based primarily on the research documents shared by the IATT members, covering...

How to beat a crisis: Interview with Argentinean Vice President

In 2001 Argentina defaulted on its debt and ended the parity of its currency with the US dollar. The South American country plunged deeper into crisis, but within months economic growth set in. We asked Argentine Vice President Mr Amado Boudou if...