In Latin America there is strong evidence of the conditions in which young people enter the labour market. Youth unemployment has traditionally been higher than in other age groups, and it is usually the first to rise in times of economic crisis and the last to fall in booms (Tokman, 1997, ECLAC, 2010). In other words, "the young are among those who bear the brunt of the recessionary and regressive effects of crises" (ECLAC, 2012a, p. 89). As a result, adolescents and youths are still overrepresented among the unemployed.