The Future of Work in Latin America and The Caribbean: Education and Health, The Sectors of The Future? (print version)

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Date issued
Jan 2019
In this second issue of the series "The future of work in Latin America and the Caribbean", we analyze the evolution of the labor market in the education and health sectors. Not only do we observe that employment has grown considerably in the last four decades, but that jobs in education and health are good quality jobs -especially for women-. In addition, the study projects the number of teachers, doctors and nurses that the countries of the region will need in the coming years. To access the videos, audios and other interactive content that underline the most important messages of this document, we invite you to download the interactive version of this note at http://www.iadb.org/futureofwork