Human Resources and the Adjustment Process - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0940602903 ISBN 13: 9780940602908

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press / The Inter-American Development Bank, 1995

Synopsis

Contributors examine whether drops in output are associated with structural adjustment, identifies the labor categories hardest hit, and analyzes the efforts of national institutions to retrain the work force and cushion the impact of adjustment. Studies of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay find that none has yet designed a retraining program that deals adequately with all the effects of adjustment.

Inter-American Development Bank

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Synopsis:

Lasting economic adjustment in Latin America will require comprehensive worker framing programs that respond to changing private sector needs. Human Resources and the Adjustment Process examines whether drops in output are associated with structural, adjustment, identifies the labour categories hardest hit, and analyses the efforts of national institutions to retrain the work force and cushion the impact of adjustment. Studies of Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay find that none has yet designed a retraining program that deals adequately with an the effects of adjustment. Better co-ordination is needed between restructured firms and the educational system, and countries must move beyond cyclical funding for training 'programs. Human resource development tends to surge during boom periods but wither during recessionary cycles. Institutional mechamsms are needed to consistently track demand for different types of labour and to ensure that training not only meets current demand but anticipates future labour needs as well.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press / The Inter-American Development Bank
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0940602903
• ISBN 13: 9780940602908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 215
• Editor: Paredes Ricardo, Riveros Luis A.