Training for Specialists in Indonesia: Assessing the Effects of Trade on Employment
The training is aimed to strengthen the participants’ skills to empirically analyse the effects of trade on employment using Social Accounting Matrix and multiplier analysis. In so doing, the training lays down the base for researchers and analysts willing to embark on more complex SAM-based methodologies.
Objective
The main objective of the training is to strengthen the participants’ skills to empirically analyse the effects of trade on employment using Social Accounting Matrix and multiplier analysis. In so doing, the training lays down the base for researchers and analysts willing to embark on more complex SAM-based methodologies such as CGE.
Target group and requirements
This course is primarily for development practitioners, policy analysts, policy advisors and researchers affiliated to government ministries and ILO social partners in Indonesia. A maximum of 20 participants are envisaged for this training.
Participants are expected to have a basic knowledge of trade economics (or to have been a participant in one of the courses organized by ILO on trade and employment issues and/or the training on world integrated trade solution (WITS); some experience in working with data; and basic knowledge of Microsoft excel.
Learning methodology
A blended approach which combines preparatory e-learning, face-to-face learning and five-weeks long follow-up phase structured as weekly research meetings will be applied.
An interactive web-platform will be developed by ITC-ILO for the preparatory e-learning phase. It will be used for information-sharing and for preparing participants for the face-to-face phase of the training. Participants will be given access to the learning web-platform at least a week prior to the commencement of the face-to-face phase of the training.
The ILO staff (including the Turin Centre) will develop the course modules and facilitate the course with the assistances of local experts. The course will combine individual presentations by experts and a series of hands-on exercises on excel in order to gradually introduce participants to SAMs and multiplier analysis.
During the follow-up research meetings phase, participants (with support from a local expert who will be appointed to the purpose) will undertake simulation exercises to analyze and document the effects of trade on employment on the bases of specific assignments.