We live in an age of massive knowledge. The 21st century offers challenges such as misinformation, cyberbullying, online grooming (online sexual harassment and abuse), and the production of open knowledge, growing at an unstoppable speed.
Today, Women’s Day, we celebrate all initiatives that seek to close gender gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean. From the point of view of early childhood policies, we know that there is abundant evidence on the impacts that child care programs have both on child development and female labor participation in developed countries. However, rigorous evidence for the region is scarce. This brings us to this question: What do we know about the relationship between child care and greater opportunities for women in Latin America and the Caribbean?
Closing the gender gap represents an untapped potential for growth, as well as creating opportunities for women in the region to achieve their full potential in their personal and professional lives.
In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) there is limited knowledge about the size of the LGBTQ population and their experiences of discrimination. This technical note, based on a compilation of studies in LAC, evidences the existing challenges and data gaps to measure the size of the LGBTQ population and their experiences of discrimination in the region.
A few years ago, I wrote an article about the benefits of becoming a mother after the age of 40. Although pregnancy caused significant changes and discomfort, the excitement of my child’s arrival overshadowed those challenges. What I didn’t expect was that, years later, I would again experience intense changes.
The COVID-19 crisis generated a sudden need for businesses to start operating remotely, and for employees to work from home. In consequence, the use of telework increased rapidly in Latin America and the Caribbean as it did globally. However, differences on the severity of containment measures by country, access to internet, and particularities of each country's labor markets may have played a role in the divergence of trends across countries in the post-pandemic scenario.
Digital transformation brings an opportunity to improve the efficiency and reach of public employment services, more so in today’s everchanging labor markets composed of flexible and mobile job seekers and occupations. In this video, world class experts and labor market officials in Latin America and the Caribbean shed light on the importance of having public employment services that are more digital in the region.
With purpose of accompanying countries in the construction and strengthening of their public employment services, IDB’s Labor Markets Division and the Technical Support Network to Employment Services in Latin America and the Caribbean (SEALC Network), conducted a Regional Policy Dialogue on the digital transformation of public employment services in Latin America and the Caribbean. This event took place in Lima, Peru, in October 2022, and provided the space for global and regional experts and employment officials to discuss the importance of digital transformation for job recovery.
This paper analyzes preferences for certain school attributes among in-service teachers. We explore a centralized matching process in the city of Sao Paulo that teachers must use when transferring schools. Because teachers have to list and rank their preferences for schools, we can estimate the desirability of school attributes using a rank-ordered logit model. We show that the schools distance from the teachers home, school average test scores, and teacher composition play a central role in teacher preferences.
We know that mother tongue is the first language we acquire in our early childhood through our caregivers (parents, grandparents, siblings, and others). While it may seem like a natural process, providing services that empower caregivers to stimulate their children’s language development from an early age can make a big difference for a lifetime.