Tackling structural disparities in the labour market: Policies and programmes for labour and productive inclusion
- Author: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Main Title: Social Panorama of Latin America 2015 , pp 87-137
- Publication Date: May 2017
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/bf4ee57a-en
- Language: English Spanish
Work is the master key for equality, the linchpin of social and economic integration and a fundamental mechanism for constructing autonomy, identity, personal dignity, and expanded citizenship (ECLAC, 2010, 2012a and 2014a). Latin American households obtain 80% of their total incomes from work, which, therefore, is also the driving force for overcoming poverty and gaining access to well-being and social protection (ECLAC, 2015a). Nonetheless, the world of work can also produce and exacerbate inequalities. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the labour market has historically served as the link between a highly heterogeneous production structure with a large low-productivity sector, and high levels of inequality among household incomes. The heterogeneity of the production structure is reflected in labour markets with high levels of informality, which generate large disparities in job quality, labour incomes, access to social protection and opportunities for upward occupational mobility throughout a person’s working life. These inequalities also intersect with gaps based on gender, race, ethnicity and area of residence, which have always been features of Latin American societies (ECLAC, 2015a).
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