Desigualdades en el ingreso y el trabajo decente en América Latina y el Caribe: Un enfoque desde el ODS 8

SDG 8 focuses on promoting decent work and economic growth, its objective is to promote the creation of productive jobs and ensure fair working conditions for all people, to achieve this goal, it is necessary to address the problem in developing countries, and ensure that all people have access to formal and decent jobs. Because of the aforementioned implications, the study aims to determine whether there is inequality in average income by sex and occupation in various countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. For its resolution, a stratified descriptive analysis is used and, in the inferential field, T Student related samples in order to find differences between groups. The results show that, in many countries, women earn less than men per hour worked, and the gender wage gap can be quite significant, for example, in Chile, the relative difference between men's and women's average earnings per hour worked is 21.66%, Jamaica the relative difference is also significant, with a wage gap of 18.68%. However, there are some countries in which the wage gap is smaller or even non-existent, as in Belize, where women earn 3.69% more than men per hour worked. By means of the inferential application for particular cases, it is concluded and ratified that there is a substantial difference between men and women, with the latter being more disadvantaged.