Educación técnica y tecnológica, una oportunidad impostergable para el desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe

Technical and technological education, an urgent task for development in latin america and the caribbean

Ricardo Alejandro Peña Pinzón

Econógrafos, Escuela de Economía from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID

Abstract: The enhancement of quantity and quality of technical and technological education has the potential to promote employment among the young and labor formality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Therefore, it is urgent to reduce information asymmetries between young laborers, enterprises, and technical and technological institutions; to interconnect the parts of the education system; to guarantee the pertinence of curriculums; and to focus public expenditure in the regions that need it the most. This text presents the context of youth unemployment and of technical and technological education in the region. Then, their effects on employment and income are discussed and finally certain routes of action are proposed.

Keywords: tertiary education; technical and technological education; returns of education; labour formality; Latin America and the Caribbean (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I25 I26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2021-12
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://fce.unal.edu.co/centro-editorial/images/ar ... onografos-EE-168.pdf

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:col:000176:022652

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Econógrafos, Escuela de Economía from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Unal ().