The importance of job training to reduce structural unemployment in Chile
Abstract
The article aims to examine the importance of job training policies as an essential element to improve the employability possibilities of workers, especially those who are unemployed. From a sociological point of view, structural unemployment refers to when certain groups of people lack the job skills required to fill the jobs demanded by industry, generating in society a structural inequality in access to job opportunities and the emergence of long-term unemployment. In a labor market in constant transformation due to the phenomenon of globalization and technological advances, job training policies are essential to contribute to closing gaps and mismatches between supply and demand, especially in those people who are most vulnerable in an increasingly segmented labor market. In this research, the quantitative method was used by applying surveys to a sample of unemployed people who attended the Municipal Labor Information Offices (OMIL) in the Atacama region, Chile.
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