Youth employment policies: studies in Latin America and Argentina

Youth and Employment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Problems, Prospects and Options

It is critical because average unemployment among young people is, in all countries of the region, much higher than average unemployment overall. In fact, in Latin America and the Caribbean the youth unemployment rate is twice the overall unemployment rate and three times the rate for adults; in some countries it is as high as five times the rate for adults over age 45. What is more, young peop...

Politics, Policies, and Poverty in Latin America

Rural Women’s Empowerment in Nonfarm Employment Issues for ICT Initiatives and Territorial Policies in Latin America

In the mind of the general public, the rural sector is equal to agriculture and for a great majority of policymakers, rural development continues to mean agricultural development. Not surprisingly, it is a sector traditionally covered at the governmental level by the ministries of agriculture, and at the international development level by agencies with an agricultural development mandate such a...

Labor Standards and Informal Employment in Latin America

— This paper addresses the hypothesis that higher labor standards––in particular freedom of association and collective bargaining rights––and higher wages in the formal sector reduce employment in that sector and thereby contribute to the informalization of employment. This issue is explored using panel data on specific categories of formal and informal employment for 14 Latin American countrie...

The Employment Problem in Latin America: Perceptions and Stylized Facts

1 The authors gratefully acknowledge the comments of Ricardo Hausmann, Carmen Pagés and Miguel Székely , and the valuable assistance of Mauricio Olivera in furnishing the labor statistics.