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Unemployment protection systems: The experiences of developed and transition countries
- Author: Gerla van Breugel
- Main Title: Protection and Training Institutions for Improving Workforce Integration in Latin America and Asia , pp 33-84
- Publication Date: November 2016
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/6614d209-en
- Language: English Spanish
Latin America and Asia face similar challenges in developing labour market institutions. For example, they need to create new unemployment protection systems or strengthen existing ones; and they need to improve training programmes and enhance labour market inclusion for population segments living in conditions of poverty and vulnerability. This chapter aims to contribute to the discussion on policies to address those challenges, by analysing the experiences of developed and transition countries with those protection systems. First, the developed countries have accumulated many decades of experience in developing such instruments, and they have a copious bibliography on their impact. Second, transition countries, many of which have a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita similar to those of Asian and Latin American countries, faced the new challenge of open unemployment when they converted from central planning to market economies. This makes the question of how they built a brand new protection system particularly relevant.
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