Labour inclusion is a central component of inclusive social development, which seeks to ensure that all labour force participants have access to decent jobs that guarantee adequate levels of pay and social protection coverage
Given the role that employment and labour markets play in household and individual well-being, this edition of Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean is devoted to the challenges and opportunities of labour inclusion in the region.
This is a priority area for advancing successful strategies towards inclusive social development, because labour markets can either transmit and reproduce inequality, inequity and discrimination, and thus be corrosive for social cohesion, or else they can function as major engines of social mobility, increased income, fulfilment of labour rights and higher living standards, and thus contribute to well-being and social cohesion.