Increasingly, skills are seen as a key component of competitiveness. Employer Skill Surveys (ESS) have an important role to play in: (i) demonstrating the skills that are in most demand and where shortages are evident; and, (ii) understanding the rationale employers provide for investing or not investing in the skills of their workforce. This paper reviews evidence from the UK and other countries and regions that have long experience in developing ESS with the aim of helping countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to design a suitable and effective survey.

The files that accompany the harmonized base offer to the user relevant data information to understanding how variables were created, level of comparability of the countries that are part of the base and main results.

The files that accompany the harmonized base offer to the user relevant data information to understanding how variables were created, level of comparability of the countries that are part of the base and main results.

We explored the hypothesis that the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), Jamaica's conditional cash transfer program, contributes to breaking the inter-generational poverty cycle by placing its urban beneficiaries on a higher educational trajectory.

This study aims to diagnose and compare the school infrastructure management processes of the different countries in the region to identify common challenges. It also focuses on identifying areas of improvement of each country and better practices that could be replicated in other parts of the region.

The evidence on the effectiveness of youth training programs in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) tends to be encouraging regarding the quality of employment of beneficiaries (positive impacts are observed regarding the access to formal employment), although there is significant heterogeneity across countries and by gender of the beneficiaries. It is not clear how easily one can generalize from the results of an impact evaluation in a particular country.