The objective of this paper is to explore the effects of globalization on the labour market and social stratification. It is generally held that globalization will bring about progress for nations and people. This, however, is far from clear, since the experience of almost two decades has been raising increasing doubts about the potential net gains and, particularly, the distribution of such gains. Clearly, there are winners and losers among both countries and people. We will concentrate on the effects upon people within countries and refer only to one region: Latin America. Our aim is to iden…
This paper examines trends in intergenerational class mobility for six birth cohorts of individuals born between 1921 and 1981, observed in surveys carried out in 1973, 1982, 1988, 1996 and 2014. Besides analysing the variation of trends on the basis of three temporal dimensions —age, birth cohort and survey year— the paper determines the effects of educational attainment on intergenerational mobility. The analysis reveals a historical trend of increasing social mobility across birth cohorts in Brazil. The effects of educational attainment are determined by three mechanisms: educational expans…
1 Abr 2008, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:36
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Stable, higher income democracies often have both a strong middle class and relatively low levels of inequality. In contrast, lower and middle income countries with highly unequal patterns of income distribution and stratified social structures often have a weak middle class, more social conflict and a tendency to populist and/or authoritarian politics. This paper investigates, for a sample of more than 120 countries, some empirical correlations between the size of the middle class and the following set of variables: the level (mean); of per capita income and wealth, the degree of inequality (…
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The decreasing performance of boys, the questioning of the roles of females, men's isolation, and a crisis of mascullinity are the subject of this paper. In this series of papers, the issue of male marginalization is examined. First, it is placed in historical perspective. Then individual findings are presented for Dominica, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Puerto Rico. Male and female staff and students at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of the West Indies are also studied.…
Altas autoridades de los ministerios y áreas sociales de los países de la región se darán cita del 2 al 4 de septiembre de 2025 en Brasilia para participar en la Sexta Reunión de la Conferencia Regional sobre Desarrollo Social de América Latina y el Caribe, organizada por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), el Gobierno de Brasil y el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), que realizará simultáneamente su XVII Foro Ministerial para el Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe.
La ceremonia de inauguración tendrá lugar mañana, martes 2…
2 Sep 2025, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:19
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Países de América Latina y el Caribe que participan en la Sexta Reunión de la Conferencia Regional sobre Desarrollo Social de América Latina y el Caribe refrendaron hoy su voluntad de seguir trabajando para alcanzar un verdadero desarrollo social inclusivo y de aprovechar su fecunda historia de innovación social para construir una postura regional en esta materia ante foros multilaterales, que incluye la propuesta de acordar un pacto mundial por el desarrollo social inclusivo en noviembre en Qatar.
El encuentro intergubernamental, que se celebra entre el 2 y el 4 de septiembre en la…
27 Ago 2025, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:19
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Del 2 al 4 de septiembre de 2025 se llevará a cabo en Brasilia la Sexta Reunión de la Conferencia Regional sobre Desarrollo Social de América Latina y el Caribe, organizada por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), el Gobierno de Brasil y el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), que realizará simultáneamente su XVII Foro Ministerial para el Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe.
La Conferencia Regional, que congregará a altas autoridades de los ministerios y áreas sociales de los países de la región, es un espacio clave de diálogo y coopera…
Del 2 al 4 de septiembre de 2025 se llevará a cabo en Brasilia la Sexta Reunión de la Conferencia Regional sobre Desarrollo Social de América Latina y el Caribe, organizada por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), el Gobierno de Brasil y el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), que realizará simultáneamente su XVII Foro Ministerial para el Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe.
La Conferencia Regional, que congregará a altas autoridades de los ministerios y áreas sociales de los países de la región, es un espacio clave …
1 Abr 2001, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:21
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Now that the 1990s have ended and a new millennium is dawning, the low rate of economic growth, the region's vulnerability to international financial instability and the limited progress made in terms of equity oblige us to reflect on the social agenda for the future. An important role in that agenda will continue to be played by the efforts to overcome poverty and indigence, conditioned to a large extent by the region's capacity for economic change and its dynamism in creating large numbers of jobs of higher quality in terms of productivity and income. At the same time, in view of t…
1 Ago 1993, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:41
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This article provides an overview of a number of changes that have taken place in the region's economy, together with their effects in terms of its social stratification, and analyses the different social sectors' options for political action. A series of economic changes have altered both the traditional heterogeneity of the Latin American economy and the relative weight of its various sectors; this is reflected, for example, 9n the heightened importance of agribusiness and the reciprocal penetration of the services and production sectors. Today a generic distinction between i…