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2 minimum salaries as a technician. If in the future The growing income inequality, lowing rates of
each one of them has a family, the children of the first economic mobility, and expanding work instability lead
father will earn in average 76% more than the children to many people to struggle desperately for paying for
of the second, andthe children of the second 76% food, housing, education, and transportation. Surviving in
more than the first. Now, think of a father that earns this environment carries a big challenge for any society
less than the minimum salary or is under the poverty that pretends to fix itself from a long conflict. The
line, their children will be under the earnings of the Colombian peace process was a good start, but if the
first, second, and third for a long time,inclusive during mentioned and other problems are not solved, in
several generations. Therefore, in Colombia, the Colombia, there will subsist a fertile area for social
moving up is hard and for some parts of the discomfort, unhappiness and probably new illegal armed
population, nearly impossible, and it is certainly a groups will emerge. There are many issues to tackle. So,
difficult environment to reduce poverty. we need to work hard to create a truly peaceful,
egalitarian, fair, wealthy, and modern Colombia.
To go deep
Central Intelligence Agency. (2019). The World Factbook 2019.
Washington, DC: CIA.
López, E. (2014). Precariedad laboral en Colombia 1990-2013.
Enfoques
teóricos
y
consecuencias
socioeconómicas.
In
Vestigium Ire. 1 (7):40-54.
The socio-economic Mobility. Taken and edited from The
economist. Mobility Measured. Feb 1st 2014. Washington
D.C
Third, in Colombia, job quality is deteriorating.
Since the first years of the 1990s decade a flexible job
market
has
been
implemented
(Lopez,
OECD. (2018). The only way is up? Social mobility and equal
opportunities. Paris: OECD publishing.
Presidencia de la República. (2016) Preámbulo, Acuerdo final
para la terminación del conflicto y la construcción de una paz
estable y duradera. November 24th, 2016.
2013).
Nowadays in the job market, for most of us is usual to
be employed at a fixed-term like 3, 6 or less than 12
months. Alongside there is an extensive framework of
labor-hour and service provision contracts. However,
there was a time where the indefinite term contract
was the rule, allowing to the workers get a pension, a
house, a car and provide high education to children.
The Colombian labor market flexibilization has led to a
drop in the salaries, a worker with indefinite-term
contract earns on average 43% more than a worker
with definite contract. Furthermore, in this context, the
Colombian employees and their families have gotten a
lack of stability, degraded their lifestyle, and been
injured their physical and mental integrity.
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