Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social Dirección de Asuntos Internacionales Meeting of the Working Group 1 of the XV IACML Panel 2 - "The responses of Ministries of Labor and the perspective of social Actors to the current economic crisis” Washington May 20 , 2009
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Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad SocialDirección de Asuntos Internacionales
Meeting of the Working Group 1 of the XV IACML
Panel 2 - "The responses of Ministries of Labor and the perspective of social Actors to the current economic crisis”
Washington
May 20 , 2009
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Responses to the Argentinean crisis
(2001 – 2002)
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• In the year 2003 the State recovers its role as state, installing decent work in the center of public policies.
• A model of central growth centered in the production to generate quality employment was defined as a pillar to promote social inclusion and strengthen democratic governance.
The promotion of decent work as State policy
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INSTITUTIONALINSTITUTIONALRECOVERYRECOVERY
Re-installation of labor inspection
Simplification of registration.
Impulse to social dialogue and collective
negociatión
Reform of the labor norms.
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INCOME INCOME POLICYPOLICY
Fixed Salary increments
Implementation of the transference
programs of income throught
families.
Extension of the welfare coverage
Applied increases on the minimun
salary.
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EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT POLICYPOLICY
Employment Offices Network (Municipalities).
Policies of training and prefessional formation.
RSE Program for Decent Work
Insurance for unemployment
with a non contributive
origin
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• Strong coordination or articulation of policies (Ministries of Economy, Foreign Affairs, Social Development, Health, etc.)
The welfare coverage of senior adults passes from a 47% to a 92.8%
Obtained Results
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Specific Responses against the
international crisis
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• Although the crisis striked the labor market , the registered employment continues to show growth in inter-annual terms.
• The rate of unemployment didn’t rise, still this is due to the
unregistered employment growth.
• The adjustment of employment is verified more by a contraction of the incorporations than by a arise of the dismissals.
• Around half of the announced dismissals by the enterprises in the last months are in a negotiation processes.
Employment in the Argentina of the crisis
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Fuente: MTEySS – SSPTyEL, en base a EIL.
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2,5
3,0
3,5
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IV-07 I -08 I I -08 I I I -08 IV-08
Tasa de Entrada Tasa de Salida Tasa de despidos
Evolution of the incorporations and laid-offs
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Articulation of the policies to face the crisis
(institucional and economic policies)
Industrial Policy :• Support to the SMEs.• Conditioned credit to employment manteinance• Credit Lines to re-activate consumption
Macro-economic Policy :• Public investments Program in infraestructure.• Nationalization of the Social Security system : Allows to
direct the investment of the savings to long term projects with high social impact.
Institucional Policy :• Creation of the Ministry
of Production.• Policies for Sectorial
Support with clauses for the defense of employment.
• Creation of the Table of Production and Employment.
Anti-crisis Policies (defense of employment
and social welfare)BOARD OF PRODUCTION
AND EMPLOYMENT
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Articulation of the policies to face the crisis II
(social and labor policies)
Labor Policy :• Application of the Preventive Crisis Procedure (PPC) to avoid downsizing.• Budgetary expansion of the Programa de Recuperación Productiva (REPRO).• Intensification of Training Programs.• Reduction of employers’ contribution in case of employment formalization.• Extension of Training and Employment Insurance.
Social protection Policy :• Raise in the allocationd for families.• Increase of programs of direct transfers.• Statization and extension of the Welfare System.• Increase of the retired and pensioned by application of the Law of Movility
Anti-crisis Policies (defense of employment
and social welfare)BOARD OF PRODUCTION
AND EMPLOYMENT
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INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT
VARIACION 1° Trim 08 / 1° Trim 09
País 1° Trim 08 1° Trim 09 Variación
Argentina 8,4 8,4 0,0%
Alemania 7,9 7,9 0,0%
Brasil 8,4 8,6 1,6%
Portugal 7,7 8,4 9,1%
Francia 7,8 9,0 15,4%
Chile 7,6 9,2 21,1%
México 3,9 5,0 28,5%
Suecia 5,5 7,9 43,6%
Estados Unidos 5,3 8,8 66,0%
España 9,6 17,4 80,3%
Irlanda 4,8 9,9 106,3%
Fuente: SSPTyEL, en base a Institutos de Estadísticas Nacionales y Eurostat.
Rate of unemployment at international level
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• The characteristics of the current economic and finantial global crisis make difficult to predict its evolution and its impact in different countries.
• Due to this, the importance of the public policies accentuates, in order to mitigate the negative effects on the population and on the internal transmission mechanisms
• There isn’t a unique form of orchestrate the relation between globalization and its social impact : is important to recognize the levels of freedom of the national policies.
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As conclusion
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• Coordination of the policies as leading framework before the crisis
• Role of the ML: the compliance of the labor rights and the defense of employment
• Encourage social dialogue and collective negociation
• Assurance of social protection
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PROPOSALS
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