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Labor Market Observatory of MERCOSUR. MERCOSUR.
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MERCOSUR • On 1991 Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay signed the Agreement of Asuncion which gives formal origin to MERCOSUR, considering the economical and social integration as a fundamental condition to accelerate the economical development processes with social justice (Asuncion Agreement). • The main objective is the integration of the four Member States, through: • Free circulation of goods, services and productive factors, • The establishment of a common external fare, • Adoption of a common trade policy, • Coordination of sector and macro economic policies, • The harmonization of legislations in pertinent areas.
MERCOSUR • The Declaration of Ouro Preto on December-2004 highlights the advancements of the integration process: • Strengthening of Customs Union. • Agreement on Free Residency for Nationals of the Member States, as a tool that will contribute on the way towards free circulation. • Full running of the Review Committee of MERCOSUR. • Deployment of MERCOSUR Parliament on 2006. • Creation of the High Level Group for the elaboration of MERCOSUR Strategy on Employment Growth.
The Social-Labor Issue The Social-Labor Scopes: • Meeting of Ministers of Labor. • Work Subgroup N° 10 of the MERCOSUR: “Labor, Employment and Social Security Affairs”. • Follow up Committee of the Social- Labor Declaration of MERCOSUR. Achievements on the field of Social-Labor: • Multilateral Agreement on Social Security. • Social-Labor Declaration of MERCOSUR. • Recommendations on professional training practices. • Regional Conference of Employment (2004).
Functional Structure of the Observatory • The Observatory is a tripartite organism composed by: • A Management Council (1 representative for sector and country): • Establishes the periodically priorities and actions of the Observatory. • Identifies and establishes different cooperation types and exchange with public and private institutions, and national and international institutes. • A Technical-Executive Secretariat (with yearly rotation by country) that: • Carries out the administrative tasks. • Monitories the compliment of projects and work plans. • Gathers and systemizes information and studies.
The Labor Market Observatory of MERCOSUR A tool to measure the economic, trade and social integration impact. • The Observatory studies labor issues • Development of harmonized labor indicators. • Labor Conjuncture Bulletin. • Specific studies ( Employment policies, child labor, gender, migrations, etc.). • The Observatory spreads the labor issues • Seminar «Integration, MERCOSUR and employment policies» • Website: www.observatorio.net
The Observatory studies Labor Issues • The study of labor issues at regional level requires homogeneous measurement tools. • Harmonization Project of Labor Indicators of MERCOSUR (International cooperation with ILO). • Promote an Common Living Inquiry among the countries of the region.
The observatory studies labor issues • MERCOSUR Conjuncture bulletin: • Annual periodicity. • Analyzes the conjuncture of labor markets of MERCOSUR countries from a regional perspective. • General Indicators (activity, employment, unemployment, under employment y non-registered work). • Wage Indicators. • Employment Policies.
The observatory studies labor issues • Specific studies • Regional Analysis of MERCOSUR labor problematic. • Analyzed thematic: • Policies of employment (description, diagnosis, evaluation and recommendations). • Child labor (diagnosis, normative frame, policies and recommendations). • Diagnosis of the non-working population and protection systems (composition and evolution of unemployment, identification of vulnerable groups, proposed actions, programs coordination).
The Observatory spreads labor issues • Seminary «Integration, MERCOSUR and employment policies» • Gave room to the debate on the coordination of employment policies in the region. • Precedent for the Regional Employment Conference of MERCOSUR.
The Observatory spreads labor issues • Website of the Observatory: • Key diffusion medium. • Integrates dispersed information. • Permanent follow up. • The content of the site is organized as follows: • Statistics. • Studies. • Normative. • Employment Policies.
The Observatory spreads labor issues • Statistics Section: • Integrated access to main labor, economic and demographic indicators. • Methodological definitions. • Linkage with studies and another contents.
The Observatory spreads labor issues Employment Policies section: • Bank of interactive data of employment policies executed in MERCOSUR. • Classification of policies according to different criteria. • Homogenous presentation of data. Labor list of MERCOSUR: • Analysis of Labor legislation. • Comparison of effective norms in the Member States. • Access to the text of main laws.