COVID-19 and social protection: national government responses to securing employment and income in Latin America
The COVID-19 pandemic provoked a harsh deterioration of global economy and exacerbation into levels of unemployment, poverty and inequality. In Latin America, the situation took on dramatic contours, due to severe recession experienced from the 2010s, associated with problematic historical-structura...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade de Brasília (UnB) |
| Repositorio: | SER Social (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/43144 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/SER_Social/article/view/43144 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Covid-19. América Latina. Proteção social. Mercado de trabalho. Serviço Social. Pandemia de Covid-19. Protección social. Mercado de trabajo. COVID-19. América Latina. protección social.mercado de trabajo. Latin America. Social protection. Job market. COVID-19. Latin America. social protection. job market. |
| Resumo: | The COVID-19 pandemic provoked a harsh deterioration of global economy and exacerbation into levels of unemployment, poverty and inequality. In Latin America, the situation took on dramatic contours, due to severe recession experienced from the 2010s, associated with problematic historical-structural traits in the region, such as a high degree of informality in the workforce and fragile social protection systems. Given this scenario, the article aims to examine how the national governments of Mexico, Argentina and Brazil have responded to needs to protected work and guaranteed income. The identification of responses from each country was based on bibliographic research and documental survey, in addition to consultations with secondary data. The analysis considered the structural characteristics of the labor market, the previous legacy of social protection policies and the political-ideological orientation of the governments in turn. |
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