Jobs Measurement and Employment Impact Assessment

Employment impact assessment (EIA) is key to increase the effectiveness of policies intended to promote decent jobs. To anticipate the impact of economic disruptions on employment or to measure the ex-post effects of interventions on jobs provides the evidence needed to improve the design and implementation of policies. In times of crisis as the one the world is currently facing, the importance of timely and accurate assessment is stronger than ever. In partnership with the ILO’s Employment Policy Department, the ITCILO organized this e-learning course based on the methodologies, tools and approaches developed by ILO and its partners to both forecast job creation and evaluate outcomes ex-post. OBJECTIVES The course’s ultimate objective was to support the design and implementation of policies intended to promote job creation by building the capacity of all relevant stakeholders to identify, measure and assess the employment effects of economic, sectoral, trade-related or labour market policies. In particular, the course imparted the competencies needed to make informed decisions about how to best measure and evaluate the results of interventions to promote decent jobs. CONTENT MODULE 1: Jobs Measurement MODULE 2: Introduction to EIA MODULE 3: Ex-ante impact analysis MODULE 4: Ex-post impact analysis MODULE 5: Managing EIAs and evidence uptake in policy formulation MODULE 6: Submission of the project work