Decent Work and Youth: Latin America
<div style="text-align: justify">People and social groups see in their youth those who will be able to achieve even more than themselves. It is known that in Latin America, even the most impoverished invest a great deal in the education of children and youth so that they can achieve, through better jobs, a better quality of life than their parents.</div>
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The fact that miillions of young people neither study nor work and that belonging to a specific gender or race can prevent many from ever having decent work are significant challenges, as important as, unemployment and the informal economy, in the efforts to strengthen democracy in the region and give these young people an integral role in our countries development.
This report emphasizes that, when addressing the relationship between employment and youth, it is important to move towards policies that balance short-, medium- and long-term strategies as well as considering the diversity of the continent’s youth.
“Decent Work and Youth in Latin America” presents several proposals that combine analysis and experiences about this topic, in order to gather the lessons learnt. They can enable our policy makers and youth to know about initiatives carried out by others, mostly in our own region.
This report emphasizes that, when addressing the relationship between employment and youth, it is important to move towards policies that balance short-, medium- and long-term strategies as well as considering the diversity of the continent’s youth.
“Decent Work and Youth in Latin America” presents several proposals that combine analysis and experiences about this topic, in order to gather the lessons learnt. They can enable our policy makers and youth to know about initiatives carried out by others, mostly in our own region.
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Author(s)
- ILO, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean.
References
- ISBN: 978-92-2-120218-9