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- Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- from El Diario La Prensa
- 11/16 Latin America
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- YOUNG PEOPLE MOST AFFECTED BY LACK OF JOBS IN LATIN AMERICA
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- In Latin America, for each adult there are 2.5 young people
- unemployed, who are becomoing marginalized economically and
- socially, according to a report by the Chilean Worlwide Employment
- Program (PREALC). Of 50 million adolescents and young people
- younger than 25 years old which forms a part of Latin America's
- economically active population, nearly 5 million are unemployed.
- They make up 53% of the region's unemployed, and, according to the
- report, by the year 2000 the percentage of unemployed in this
- sector could rise to 12%. The increasing unemployment of young
- people can be directly associated with the increase in crime and
- drug addiction. Another indication of the crisis is the low
- quality of jobs the young people are able to obtain, with low
- salaries and no possibility of improvement.
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- In Honduras 12 to 14-year olds represent 26% of the work force.
- In El Salvador this group represents 14%. In Costa Rica, Ecuador
- and Panama, they represent 10%. There is no official data from
- Chile, Uruguay or Venezuela, because it is illegal in those
- countries for a child under 15 to work. At the beginning og the
- nineties those between 15 and 19 made up 39% of the work force in
- the region. Countries whose youth workforce falls above the
- average are Paraguay, Brazil and El Salvador, with 45% or more
- (sic), and below the average are Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador and
- Colombia. (EFE 11/16)
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- translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News
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