Book Misión de Empleo. Informe final, Julio 1986
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The book Misión de Empleo. Informe final, Julio 1986, (Employment Mission: Final Report, July 1986) published in 2023, can be downloaded from Banco de la República’s Repository (only in Spanish).
This book is the reissue of the report by the Book Misión de Empleo (Employment Mission, in English), convened in 1985-1986 by the administration of President Belisario Betancur. The Mission understood its task as the comprehensive analysis of all the problems affecting Colombia's working population and the elaboration of specific proposals to make progress on different areas. Their work was organized around three main areas. The first one included the analysis of employment, unemployment, and labor income, their relationship with the pace of economic activity, and the demographic and social phenomena affecting the labor force supply. The second incorporated all the elements of the institutional framework in which labor relations operate: social security, the private and public sector labor regime, trade unionism, and the conciliation regime. The third included a projection of the labor force supply until the end of the century and a detailed analysis of economic policies that can contribute to meeting certain employment and unemployment targets for the remainder of the century. The Mission's main recommendations are contained in two special chapters that present a proposal for labor reform and the design of a macroeconomic policy to help improve the labor situation, including considerations on the role that some special policies can play within this scheme.
