New technological trends, such as digitization, artificial intelligence and robotics, have the power to drastically increase economic output but may also displace workers. In this paper we assess the risk of automation for female and male workers in four Latin American countries Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and El Salvador. Our study is the first to apply a task-based approach with a gender perspective in this region.
Authors: Emma Nälsund-Hadley & Noam Angrist
Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) school systems are enduring a challenge to learning and skill development without precedent. No other region in the world, has lost as many school days.
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One of the main challenges of employment services -in particular labor intermediation systems- is to facilitate the adequate matching between the required skills in open vacancies and those that job seekers have. This challenge stems in part from the difficulty of matching the skills, competencies, education, and job experience that a candidate reports to have, with the functions the potential employer wants to assign to this prospect employee. |
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To meet the general objective of preparing technical education students for the labor market of the future, this IDB technical cooperation finances: |
| Through an IDB loan, a digital skills curricula was created as part of the job-readiness program for the Global Services Sector in Jamaica. This curricula entails i) Digital Skills, ii) Soft Skills, and ii) higher cognitive skills modules. |
| Development of a digital tool to support the digitization of the Caribbean credentials and certifications framework, in order to generate an ecosystem of regional integration. The blockchain-based credentials issuing system will allow CXC a streamlining of credentialing in the region, facilitating issuance and validation by different users. |
| The Bank has provided technical assistance for the creation and implementation of the technological platform that manages the process in which the pre-trial conciliation phase is managed in labor disputes, including the process of notifications of the firms involved in the disputes. |
| The Bank has provided five online courses that the officials of the new Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration in Mexico need to take and receive a passing grade. |
Public employment services (PES) offer tools through different channels to both employers and job seekers. The multiplicity of services and channels, paired with processes that are sometimes inadequately mapped, creates challenges when implementing digital systems. This document discusses how using enterprise architecture can provide a framework for defining and representing a high-level view of the organizations processes and its information technology (IT) systems, as well as their relationship with different parts of the organization and external entities.
| The Bank has provided technical assistance for the improvement of the labor intermediation system (including artificial intelligence) and for their management information system. The new version of the intermediation system will be launched on August 12. |