Youth at the crossroads: the challenges of unemployment, occupational instability and early labor force entry

Luis Beccaria and Roxana Maurizio

Chapter 14 in Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality, 2025, pp 226-239 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The chapter discusses the factors that could simultaneously influence the performance of young people in the education system and in the labor market. The evidence shows that the economic situation of young people's households is clearly associated with the likelihood of dropping out of school, although it is a complex decision as other dimensions are also relevant. On the other hand, young people face, on average, greater difficulties in the labor market than adults with similar levels of qualifications. Those abandoning school experience high job rotation rates, characterized by transitions between informal jobs, inactivity, and unemployment. This constitutes an extremely critical situation because low general human capital is combined with the difficulty of accumulating specific human capital. Therefore, it is highly probable that a situation of low income that characterizes these young workers’ households will be reproduced when they grow up, reinforcing the intergenerational transmission of disadvantages.

Keywords: Youth; Unemployment; Occupational instability; Human capital; Informality; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802200423
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