labour mobility and skills recognition: lessons for asean
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Labour mobility and skills
recognition: Lessons for ASEAN
Laura Brewer
ILO Country Office for the Philippines
Asian Conference on Globalization and Labor Administration: Cross-Border
Labor Mobility, Social Security and Regional Integration
November 19-21, 2014, Manila, Philippines
No written or electronic reproduction of this document without the author’s
permission
The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)
A single regional common market of ASEAN
countries for 600 million women and men in 2015
Free flow of goods, services, investment capital
and skilled labour in the region
AEC Opportunities: Job gains
• The AEC could create 3.1 million more jobs in the
Philippines, representing a six per cent increase in
total employment.
Source: ILO, ASEAN Community 2015: Managing integration for better jobs and shared prosperity, Bangkok, 2014.
AEC Opportunities: Job gains
• Sectors likely to grow in the Philippines are
agriculture, trade and transport and construction.
Source: ILO, ASEAN Community 2015: Managing integration for better jobs and shared prosperity, Bangkok, 2014.
AEC Opportunities: Job gains
• Labour productivity in the Philippines could
increase by more than 75 per cent from 2010 to
2025 under the AEC.
Source: ILO, ASEAN Community 2015: Managing integration for better jobs and shared prosperity, Bangkok, 2014.
AEC Opportunities: Skills Demand
• In addition, shifting demand for skills show that
demand in low-skill occupations will increase by
62.4 per cent.
Source: ILO, ASEAN Community 2015: Managing integration for better jobs and shared prosperity, Bangkok, 2014.
AEC Challenges: Skills mismatch
• By 2025, mismatch in high-skills jobs is estimated
to be around 5.2 million in the Philippines.
Source: ILO, ASEAN Community 2015: Managing integration for better jobs and shared prosperity, Bangkok, 2014.
AEC Challenges: Skills Demand
• Inside and outside ASEAN, mainly medium and
low skilled workers migrate, further growth likely.
Source: ILO, ASEAN Community 2015: Managing integration for better jobs and shared prosperity, Bangkok, 2014.
Current labour market challenges
in the Philippines
• Gender gaps in the Labour Market
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Current labour market challenges
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Current labour market challenges
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Priority Actions
Given the opportunities and challenges, what can we do as
Government, employers and workers to ensure that deeper
economic integration benefits all Filipino men and women,
as well as their families?
© ILO/Joseph Fortin
Priority Actions
Create better jobs, including through industrial policies that target agro-industry
Upgrade skills to meet shifting demand
Enhance social protection programmes
Improve protection for migrant workers
© ILO/Bobot Go© ILO/Bobot Go
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