Youth labor market segmentation in Chile: modalities and implications

Authors

  • Ignacio Becker Bozo Instituto Nacional de la Juventud

Abstract

The present article aims to describe the modalities of youth labor market segmentation in Chile in 2019. The results show an asymmetric, unequal structuring of the youth labor market in relation to its national, adult equivalent, placing itself as a space where working conditions linked to insecurity, temporality, instability, and low incomes prevail, an issue exacerbated by intragenerational conditions of gender, education levels, and household incomes. These structures and their implications for their life trajectories, as well as their role in the functioning of the productive order, are discussed in the conclusions.

Keywords:

youth labor market, inequality, labor market segmentation, multiple correspondence analysis

Author Biography

Ignacio Becker Bozo, Instituto Nacional de la Juventud

Sociólogo y magíster en Ciencias Sociales por la Universidad de Chile. Investigador
Observatorio de la Juventud del INJUV. Correo electrónico: ibeckerb@gmail.com.