Bộ Lao động Thương binh và Xã hội Viện Khoa học Lao động và Xã hội Việc làm xanh và Việc làm bền vững Thách thức và Triển vọng Ass Prof Dr Nguyen Ba Ngoc Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs[.]
Ass Prof Dr Nguyen Ba Ngoc Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs Nuremberg- October 08, 2012 Contents ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE OF VIETNAM’S LABOUR MARKET OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF VIETNAM’S LABOUR MARKET UNTIL 2020 ORIENTATIONS, OBJECTIVES AND SOLUTIONS DEVELOPING VIETNAM’S LABOUR MARKET 2011-2020 ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE OF VIETNAM’S LABOUR MARKET 1.1 Legal framework 1.2 Labour demand 1.3 Labour supply 1.4 Labour demand - supply matching and infrastructure of labour market 1.5 Ensuring social security for disadvantaged groups 1.6 Labour market governance ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE OF VIETNAM’S LABOUR MARKET • 1.1 Legal framework • • • • • The system of legislation has constituted a legal foundation for labour liberalization Legislation system on education and vocational training has been relatively comprehensive, including the Law on Education (2005), Law on Vocational Training (2006) Labour market has become more flexible, meeting better the demands of human resource of various industries in regions nationwide and workers’ demand to employment The Government has performed better its role of macro management over labour market with lessened direct intervention to industrial relations The government has performed better role: The Law on Social Insurance promulgated in 2006 with unemployment scheme carried out in 2009, the National Targeted Program on Poverty Reduction, Poverty Reduction Plan for 62 Poor Districts, Plan on Manpower Export for Poor Districts… ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE OF VIETNAM’S LABOUR MARKET • 1.1 Legal framework However: - It is not comprehensive and unanimous between the economic development policies and employment - labour market policies; - The economic policies are usual fragmented and lack of orientations changing economic structure by sectors connecting to the labour demand and mobility; - They have created no a favourable legal environment for business production activities, encourage the development of private economic sector, push up foreign investment absorbance, etc to stimulate economic development, create more jobs of stable and to form the actual labour cost based on labour market; - Coverage of labour policies is limited, mainly covered workers with industrial relation in the formal economic sectors ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE OF VIETNAM’S LABOUR MARKET • 1.2 Labour demand • 1.2.1 Promoting job creation through economic development • Between 2001 and 2010, the average GDP growth rate has been 7.26% per year, in which industry sector has the highest growth rate of 9.6% per year, economic structure has continued to shift positively • Specifically, Vietnam accessed the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2007, expanded traditional markets and developed potential ones • However, the economic growth was still widely, the growth mainly based on capital In the period 2001-2010, the economic growth rate was 7%/year, contribution from capital factor was about 56.2%, from labor factor was 25% and from TFP was approximately 19% ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE OF VIETNAM’S LABOUR MARKET • Table Selected macroeconomic variables, 2001 – 2010 Source: General Statistics Office (GSO) ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE OF VIETNAM’S LABOUR MARKET 1.2 Labour demand 1.2.2 Changing structure of employment by sector Graph Employment structure in 2010 by aggregated sector and by area; and gender differences Sourse: MOLISA, Employment trends 2011 ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE OF VIETNAM’S LABOUR MARKET • 1.2 Labour demand • 1.2.2 Changing structure of employment by sector Table Rates of growth of GDP and Employment; Employment elasticity Source: LFS 2007, 2009 and 2010 ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE OF VIETNAM’S LABOUR MARKET • 1.2 Labour demand • 1.2.3 Rapid enterprise growth, but challenges of skills • The number of enterprise has been increased remarkably during the recent years Until 2010, the economic system showed approximately 550,000 registered enterprises, with almost 70,000 businesses created every year between 2006 and 2010 • Most enterprises are small and medium scale, characterized by lowskilled workers, low technology and poor capital resources (42% of enterprises operating with chartered capital of less than billion VND and 8.9% of enterprises having chartered capital approximately of to 10 billion VND) • More than half of the enterprises have less than 10 employees and less than per cent enterprises employs more than 200 workers 10