Background

The new types of labour relations that arise from taking advantage of new technologies occur in contexts of high labour informality and heterogeneity of the productive structure that characterizes Latin America. The risks of greater informality are an obstacle to achieving the commitments established in the SDGs.

This project supports selected Latin American countries in identifying policy options to reduce labour informality as a key instrument to leave no one behind through cooperation in measurement, analysis, and policy advice.

Work is being carried out in three areas: the changes in regulations required to cover emerging labour relations; the analysis of changes in the composition of the occupational structure and the demand and supply of skills; and the identification of the probability of labour informality at the sub-national level. In addition, a fourth area has been added related to the identification, analysis, and recommendations on social policies and social protection aimed at informal workers to address the severe impacts generated by the COVID-19 pandemic and which affect this population with particular intensity.

The objective of the project is to transfer a set of methodologies to national stakeholders as inputs for policy decisions aimed at addressing the challenges of informality while taking advantage of the potential of new technologies.

The project is implemented by ECLAC's Economic Development and Social Development Divisions and ECLAC´s office in Buenos Aires.

The objective of the minisite is to disseminate the activities carried out and the information resources generated within the framework of the United Nations Development Account project "Technological Transformations in Latin America: promoting productive jobs and confronting the challenge of new forms of informal employment". This project addresses regulations to cover emerging labour relations, changes in the occupational structure and the demand and supply of skills, and the identification of the probability of informality at the sub-national level as well as the social protection of informal workers in the face of COVID-19 in selected Latin American countries.