Using panel data from labor force surveys in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, the paper maps out young people's paths from the classroom to the work place during the 1980s through the early 2000s. By decomposing transition matrices into propensity to move and rate of separation and estimating...

The aim of this paper is to illustrate how gaining a greater understanding of young people's values can contribute to the design of more effective educational policies in urban marginal neighbhourhoods using the capability approach as a normative framework of analysis. It is based on fieldwork...

El ciclo de transicion estructural y las intensivas politicas de modernizacion y participacion social por via de la educacion generaron un conjunto de cambios en las estructuras sociales cuyas beneficiarias fueron las generaciones jovenes. La crisis de los anos 80, sin embargo, acentua la...