Skills and the Labor Market in a New Era : Managing the Impacts of Population Aging and Technological Change in Uruguay

Uruguay faces medium- and long-term challenges associated with two global megatrends: population aging and technological change. These two megatrends have been developing for some time, but policy responses have been late or inadequate in many cases. Trying to delay them--by promoting higher fertili...

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Main Authors:	Apella, Ignacio, Rofman, Rafael, Rovner, Helena
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2020
Subjects:	LABOR POLARIZATION RETIREMENT AGE DEMOGRAPHIC BONUS COGNITIVE SKILLS FEMALE LABOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE EDUCATION SYSTEM LABOR MARKET DEMOGRAPHICS AUTOMATION EMPLOYMENT LABOR SKILLS DEVELOPMENT DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT SOCIAL PROTECTION
Online Access:	https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/817841592200831056/skills-and-the-labor-market-in-a-new-era-managing-the-impacts-of-population-aging-and-technological-change-in-uruguay http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33333

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spelling	okr-10986-333332021-04-23T14:05:19Z Skills and the Labor Market in a New Era : Managing the Impacts of Population Aging and Technological Change in Uruguay Apella, Ignacio Rofman, Rafael Rovner, Helena LABOR POLARIZATION RETIREMENT AGE DEMOGRAPHIC BONUS COGNITIVE SKILLS FEMALE LABOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE EDUCATION SYSTEM LABOR MARKET DEMOGRAPHICS AUTOMATION EMPLOYMENT LABOR SKILLS DEVELOPMENT DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT SOCIAL PROTECTION Uruguay faces medium- and long-term challenges associated with two global megatrends: population aging and technological change. These two megatrends have been developing for some time, but policy responses have been late or inadequate in many cases. Trying to delay them--by promoting higher fertility or enforcing restrictions on the adoption of new technologies--would probably be ineffective but also ill-advised, as these trends are generating important opportunities to increase production and welfare. The objective of this book is to identify these opportunities, as well as the challenges that population aging and technological change pose for the Uruguayan economy and to determine how they can be addressed through better-designed public policies, with a focus on the development of new skills that increase workers’ productivity. 2020-02-18T17:14:53Z 2020-02-18T17:14:53Z 2020-02-18 Book https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/817841592200831056/skills-and-the-labor-market-in-a-new-era-managing-the-impacts-of-population-aging-and-technological-change-in-uruguay 978-1-4648-1526-3 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33333 English International Development in Focus; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication Latin America & Caribbean Uruguay
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topic	LABOR POLARIZATION RETIREMENT AGE DEMOGRAPHIC BONUS COGNITIVE SKILLS FEMALE LABOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE EDUCATION SYSTEM LABOR MARKET DEMOGRAPHICS AUTOMATION EMPLOYMENT LABOR SKILLS DEVELOPMENT DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT SOCIAL PROTECTION
spellingShingle	LABOR POLARIZATION RETIREMENT AGE DEMOGRAPHIC BONUS COGNITIVE SKILLS FEMALE LABOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE EDUCATION SYSTEM LABOR MARKET DEMOGRAPHICS AUTOMATION EMPLOYMENT LABOR SKILLS DEVELOPMENT DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT SOCIAL PROTECTION Apella, Ignacio Rofman, Rafael Rovner, Helena Skills and the Labor Market in a New Era : Managing the Impacts of Population Aging and Technological Change in Uruguay
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description	Uruguay faces medium- and long-term challenges associated with two global megatrends: population aging and technological change. These two megatrends have been developing for some time, but policy responses have been late or inadequate in many cases. Trying to delay them--by promoting higher fertility or enforcing restrictions on the adoption of new technologies--would probably be ineffective but also ill-advised, as these trends are generating important opportunities to increase production and welfare. The objective of this book is to identify these opportunities, as well as the challenges that population aging and technological change pose for the Uruguayan economy and to determine how they can be addressed through better-designed public policies, with a focus on the development of new skills that increase workers’ productivity.
format	Book
author	Apella, Ignacio Rofman, Rafael Rovner, Helena
author_facet	Apella, Ignacio Rofman, Rafael Rovner, Helena
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title	Skills and the Labor Market in a New Era : Managing the Impacts of Population Aging and Technological Change in Uruguay
title_short	Skills and the Labor Market in a New Era : Managing the Impacts of Population Aging and Technological Change in Uruguay
title_full	Skills and the Labor Market in a New Era : Managing the Impacts of Population Aging and Technological Change in Uruguay
title_fullStr	Skills and the Labor Market in a New Era : Managing the Impacts of Population Aging and Technological Change in Uruguay
title_full_unstemmed	Skills and the Labor Market in a New Era : Managing the Impacts of Population Aging and Technological Change in Uruguay
title_sort	skills and the labor market in a new era : managing the impacts of population aging and technological change in uruguay
publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate	2020
url	https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/817841592200831056/skills-and-the-labor-market-in-a-new-era-managing-the-impacts-of-population-aging-and-technological-change-in-uruguay http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33333
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Skills and the Labor Market in a New Era : Managing the Impacts of Population Aging and Technological Change in Uruguay

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