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The employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Employment formalization and labour income distribution

October 2014|Bulletins » ECLAC-ILO Report
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The employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Employment formalization and labour income distribution

Autor institucional: NU. CEPAL - OIT Physical Description: 26 páginas. Editorial: ECLAC Date: October 2014 ECLAC symbol: LC/L.3904

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The employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean is a twice-yearly report prepared jointly by the Economic Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Subregional Office for the South Cone of Latin America of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Strong job creation and wage gains have proved to be a key factors in reducing poverty —quite substantially— in our region over the past decade. Together with the implementation of innovative social policies, the narrowing of wage gaps has played a fundamental role in reducing inequality between households. The success of these two processes —reducing poverty and inequality— count among the most important achievements of this period. In the past few years, however, the fight against poverty has noticeably lost momentum,1 showing the extent to which job creation has been hit by the recent economic slowdown.