According to various ECLAC studies, this is mainly due to the phenomenon of educational devaluation, since full secondary education was generalized in the last decade and no longer allows rapid access to the labour market in good conditions or guarantees escape from poverty (ECLAC/OIJ, 2008, ECLAC, 2004b, ECLAC, 2000b). Young people with university diplomas are also affected proportionately more, although this is mainly due to their greater willingness to hold out for jobs of appropriate quality suited to their skills (ECLAC, 2002). Gender criteria still play a very big role in staff selection.