世界银行-区域就业更新：来自拉丁美洲和加勒比地区劳动力调查的见解（英）

/271JOBS/271Regional Jobs Update: Insights from Labor Force Surveys Latin America and the Caribbean May 20251Poverty and Equity Global Practice1 This brief summarizes the main trends related to labor markets in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in the period 2016–24, using harmonized labor surveys from the Labor Database for Latin American and the Caribbean (LABLAC) created by the World Bank and the Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS; Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies). It also compares LAC against other regions using data from the Global Labor Database (GLD) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). This brief was produced by the Poverty and Equity Global Practice in the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank. The core team included Karen Barreto Herrera, Luis Eduardo Castellanos Rodriguez, Catalina García García, Diana Sanchez Castro, and Camila Monzon, under the leadership of Hernan Winkler and the guidance of Carlos Rodriguez Castelan. The team thanks the LinkedIn Economic Graph Research Institute for sharing the latest LinkedIn data refresh and feedback, and Bill Maloney, William Wiseman, Josefina Posadas, Yuri Yamashita and the staff from the LAC Poverty team for valuable comments. Contact: lac_stats@worldbank.org.Jobs drive poverty reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), accounting for two-thirds of the decline during the last period of rapid progress (2009-14).Over the past decade LAC generated about 27 million net new jobs—with a jobs growth rate on par with those of other world regions.Most of the job creation was observed in larger firms (with more than 5 employees), urban centers, the commerce and hospitality sectors, and among skilled workers.Youth unemployment fell by more than 5 percentage points since 2016, primarily driven by growth in salaried jobs in the private sector.Despite an increase in wage employment, the new jobs were disproportionately informal arrangements without pension or other labor benefits.Declining earnings returns to education contributed to modest labor earnings growth at 0.7 percent annually since 2016Also from 2016 on, the region experienced limited productivity growth and structural transformation, indicating stagnant labor demand.The labor market is expected to become less dynamic in 2025 based on recently downgraded economic growth projectionsKey FINDINGSPublic Disclosure AuthorizedPublic Disclosure AuthorizedPublic Disclosure AuthorizedPublic Disclosure Authorized/272Jobs constitute the primary mechanism for poverty reduction globally (Inchauste et al. 2014). In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the 2009–14 period—the last episode of rapid poverty reduction in the region—saw employment creation and earnings growth accounting for approximately two-thirds of poverty reduction. More recently, labor market performance was instrumental in reducing poverty rates to prepandemic levels (World Bank 2024). These results reflect