The Quality of Jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Technical Note The Quality of Jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean Karen Barreto, Hernan Winkler, Carolina Diaz Bonilla, Diana Sanchez Summary The creation of more and better jobs has been a key driver of poverty and inequality reduction. However, while estimates on the number of jobs are available for most countries, comprehensive measures of job quality are not typically reported systematically. This note contributes to the filling of this gap by studying patterns of job quality across countries and ov ...