Education and youth labor insertion in Argentina in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

This article is part of the problematization of the link between youth, education and work in contemporary capitalism, it resorts to the development of the structural framework of the phenomenon in Argentina since recent decades in light of the repercussions that occurred with the irruption of the pandemic of Covid-19.

Starting from the central axis in the youth population, the article aims to identify the dimensions of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in the relationship between young people, education and their insertion in the job market. It is organized into three sections: in the first instance, it investigates the particularities of the relationship between young people and the global and domestic labor market; Subsequently, he delves into the practical implications of the social structure from which young people come in their educational and work careers, which contribute to the inter-generational reproduction of inequalities; while finally, the influence of gender and the particularities in the sub-group between 18 and 24 years old in the connection of young people with work is addressed.

From a quantitative and descriptive design methodology, the article draws on academic contributions from various disciplinary fields and secondary sources with statistical indicators from official and private organizations on the characteristics of youth employment in recent years and on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this way, the article aims to contribute to the analysis of a problem that increasingly affects our societies, reproducing structures of intergenerational inequality, from the dimensioning of the challenges that arise from the impact of Covid-19 on the youth socio-labor structure of our country.