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Youth, education and employment

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 1998
273 p.

 

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 The growth of exclusionary tendencies is a clear effect of the economic internationalization process on the work market. These changes bring a set of critical aspects to the table, one of which has become a priority: the relationship of youth to the work market. Youth unemployment measures are significantly higher than those of the economically active population and present cause for warning in the labour context. In Latin America, this situation is compounded with the low quality of the majority of new jobs. Situations of marginalization are therefore multiplied and affect youth in their economic as well as social and political conditions. This issue poses a group of first rate challenges to public policy. Training fulfills a fundamental role on two sides: as a support to development and as a tool for equity. The significant attendance registered at the International Meeting on Youth, Education and Employment in Latin America on July 1997 in Rio de Janeiro reflects the transcendence and actuality exhibited by the theme tackled in this publication. The richness of the contributions made justifies the documentation of the event. Alternately, this publication picks up the challenge of advancing in some of the directions pointed out by the event, for example, the peculiarity of the conditions faced by young women with relation to employment and the local management of employment policies and youth training. Finally, the publication includes an article which presents a conceptual frame encouraging the maintenance of consistency and coherence among actions related to youth labour insertion.

 

 

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