Latin America has partly overcome the short-term adjustment stage following the external debt crisis and is now in a stage of restructuring marked by opening up to external markets. These changes, which have included the reorganization of production processes, with the incorporation of new technologies, have altered the composition of the labour market and had a strong impact on Women's labour participation. One of the most noticeable effects has been what is known as the 'feminization of the labour force' . The broad structural trends, at times magnified by the crisis and adjus…
The profound transformations undergone by the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean in recent decades have combined with a massive increase in the number of economically active women to produce significant changes in the labour market. Nonetheless, the indicators used to measure and describe this market have remained unchanged, despite the fact, which it is important to bear in mind, that they were designed for circumstances distinct from today's, with different participants and requirements in policy terms.
Although the importance of measuring the share in economic activity accoun…
América Latina ha superado parcialmente la etapa de ajuste de corto plazo tras la crisis de la deuda externa y se encuentra ahora en una fase de reestructuración, marcada por la apertura hacia los mercados externos. Estos cambios, entre los que se cuenta una reorganización de los procesos productivos con incorporación de nuevas tecnologías, han modificado la composición del mercado de trabajo, ejerciendo fuertes efectos en la participación laboral femenina. De éstos, el más notorio ha sido la llamada feminización de la fuerza de trabajo .
Las grandes tendencias estructurales, que en…
Las profundas transformaciones que las economías latinoamericanas y del Caribe han experimentado en las últimas décadas, junto con la masiva incorporación de la mujer a la actividad económica, se han traducido en cambios significativos en el mercado de trabajo. No obstante, los indicadores que se utilizan para medir y caracterizar a este mercado no han variado, si bien debe tenerse presente que fueron diseñados para realidades diferentes, con actores y requerimientos distintos en materia de política.
A pesar de que la importancia de medir la participación en la actividad económica de los traba…
26 - 27 March 2025
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Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an opportunity to galvanize action aimed at promoting greater inclusion of youth in all spheres. This roadmap recognizes in several of its goals the centrality of the full incorporation of youth as a necessary condition to move towards more inclusive societies, in which no one is left behind, on a path to sustainable development. However, youth in the Caribbean face many challenges that need to be addressed as precursors to creating environments that enable them to reach their maximum potential to contribute to the achievement of SDGs by 2030, the…
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