Uncertainty and work: a comparative study of labor insecurity and educational achievement in Mexico and Argentina

Fiorella Mancini, El Colegio de México

The purpose of this paper is to ask weather increasing labor insecurity in local labor markets of Latin America have produced a fundamental shift in social inequality structure of the region. The aim objective is to examine how relationship between job insecurity and inequality is filtered by educational achievement in different countries. Central hypothesis is that the impact of labor insecurity on social inequality is experimented and filtered differently in Mexico and Argentina, due to institutional and educational differences. Nevertheless, welfare regimes, works organizations, families systems and workers trajectories also modulated the force of labor insecurity on social inequality structure.