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Diez de Medina, R.
Youth and employment in the nineties

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 2001
143 p.

 

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 Young people in Latin America are suffering the consequences of economic adjustments and they are the last ones to benefit from the successes of economic adjustments. Macro economic adjustments and economic uncertainty in the region signed the nineties. Another key feature of the decade was the awareness of the role played by education and training as vehicles to attain an efficient integration to the modern world.

To build modern societies in the region means more than the incorporation of new technologies. It is also necessary to implement actions that promote the entry into working life of million of young people. Their exclusion, on the contrary, implies a risk to the social fabric and an obstacle to the modernization process of Latin America. Investment on training seems to be the main challenge that the region faces in the XXI century.

This book seeks to analyze an already heterogeneous society with the objective of contributing to the visualization of changes and the design of adequate policies and strategies. Through a particular analysis of the household survey of almost all the countries of the region the author does a comparative study of the labour context of the urban young people across the nineties. Behind the heterogeneity of the concept of youth and its relation to the world of work a permanent equation is clear: modernization is absolutely incompatible with marginalization and unemployment.

 

 

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