Occupational stratification in latin america

The occupational stratification that developed in Latin America during the 1980s and 1990s has not been conducive to greater social mobility or to better income distribution. At the end of the 1990s, occupations could be grouped into three relatively homogeneous levels, according to the income they generate, namely, higher, intermediate and lower. Higher–income occupations account for just over 9% of the workforce; workers in this category earn considerably more than those in other categories and thus clearly stand apart from them. Only 14% of the employed population is now in the intermediate category, which had grown enough in the post–war era to become indicative of increasing social mobility in some countries of the region. The average earnings of those at the lower level, a large and disparate mass accounting for three quarters of all employed workers, are not in themselves sufficient to raise a typical Latin American family above the poverty threshold. At this level, workers in commerce, blue–collar workers, artisans, operators and drivers may be distinguished by the nature of their occupations from workers providing personal services and agricultural workers.

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