Macroeconomy for decent work in Latin America and the Caribbean

Employment Working Paper No. 79

A persistent trait in Latin American societies is precarious employment. Notwithstanding
the progress made in terms of poverty reduction since the 1990s, employment still fails to
show sustained and vigorous progress towards a predominance of more stable jobs, with
social protection, and worker organization and capacity for collective bargaining, in the
framework of the ILO Programme for Decent Work.