The Centro para la Educación y el Desarrollo (Ceduca) has published findings of a study on youth employment in the Dominican Republic. The findings indicate that more than 20% of the population aged 15 to 29 is not studying or working.
Alba Reyes, director of Ceduca said the study, “Dominican Young People, Those Unknowns” reveals that youth unemployment in the country is at 29%. This is double the regional average for Latin America and the Caribbean that stands at 14%, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO).
She remarked that of these most work in the informal sector that is characterized by the high vulnerability of jobs and less pay. She said that the informal sector employs 73.5% of young people aged 15 to 18, 46% of those 19 to 24 years and 42.7% of those aged 25 to 29. She complained that those jobs do not provide health insurance or other social security benefits.
Ceduca is beginning a campaign to draw the attention of the authorities on the impact of low and poor quality jobs is having on youths and society.
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27 August 2019