Report on Policy Dialogue on Labour Market Inequality in Brazil and India : project paper G.2

There was an agreement among participants that despite breakthroughs, a huge challenge remains, that is, providing skills for workers usually without basic education and who are confined to the worst-paid jobs in sectors and occupations characterized by high turnover rates and low skills. Should inequality be reduced in terms of Vocational and Educational Training (VET) access, the quality of the skills offered and the places available in the labour market would more than compensate these efforts. Minimum wage policy was questioned in that the minimum wage formula in Brazil pegs its value to past inflation and past rate of increase of the GDP