El Salvador

En el marco del Estudio sobre Igualdad de Género en la Formación Profesional de Centroamérica y
República Dominicana, efectuado entre los meses de junio y noviembre del año 2020, se solicitó a
las instituciones de formación profesional identificar y describir buenas prácticas desarrolladas para
procurar la igualdad en el acceso, permanencia y egreso de mujeres en los distintos servicios de
formación y capacitación ofrecidos.

Resumen ejecutivo de l'informe: Estudio sobre género en la formación profesional - Centroamérica y República Dominicana

As part of the Study on Gender Equality in Vocational Training in Central America and the Dominican
Republic, undertaken between June and November 2020, vocational training institutes were asked
to identify and describe good practices in ensuring women’s equality in accessing, remaining in and
completing the different education and training courses on offer.

Since the early 2000s, after a long period of wide and persistent gaps, Latin America has experienced a steady decline in income inequality. This paper presents evidence of a trend reversal in labor income inequality, which is considered the main factor behind such a decline in income inequality across the region. The analysis shows that, while labor income inequality increased during the 1990s, with heterogeneous experiences across countries, it fell in a synchronized way across countries beginning in the early 2000s. This systematic decline was supported by an expansion in real hourly earnings among the bottom of the wage distribution and, to a lesser extent, the middle part of the earnings distribution, thus reducing upper and lower tail inequality. This trend reversal is explained by a lower dispersion of earnings among workers with observable different attributes and by a much less extensive dispersion of residual labor inequality. Regarding the earnings differentials among workers with observable different attributes, the analysis concludes that the decline in labor inequality in Latin America has been closely associated with a reduction in the college/primary education premium and in the urban-rural earnings gap, coupled with a steady drop in the high school/primary education premium, which accelerated markedly since the 2000s, as well as a reduction in the experience premium across all age groups.