Determinantes das atividades ocupacionais dos jovens brasileiros

Abstract

World Bank estimates (2015) for 2015 show that 19 % of Latin American youth aged 15-24 neither study nor work - so-called nor-and the world average is 22 %. In addition, most young people living in developing regions, except Europe and Central Asia, did not complete high school. In terms of the urban / rural area, Latin America is the region with the highest pro portion of people in urban areas. Despite these high rates of idle young people, the fact is that Latin America is the region with the highest concentration of neither and nor among families up to the fourth lowest decile of income distribution. In this way, this research contributed to make decomposition scenarios for young people’s qualifications (gender, race, origin, family characteristics, schooling, etc.), identifying the effect of unobservable factors on their decision to allocate time in different age groups. This was possible through a different methodological approach, since the application of a bivariate binary model allowed to identify the conditioning factors, not only of the young neither, but also those who study / do not work, work / do not study and study / work. The presence of another young person Neither-Work-Neither Education in the family, rural location, low level of education of the mother and per capita income are variables that present high significance in determining the choices of young people, public policies directed at this part of the population should take this into account.