Analysis of the inequalities at the beginning of the stable working life

This paper extends the study of changes in time and inequalities by gender and socioeconomic level at the moment when three cohorts of Mexican men and women got their first stable job. A statistical analysis that allows specifying the relationship of these three axes: cohorts, gender and socioeconomically status with the transition to the first job had not been done until this paper. Moreover, this text analyses the socio demographic factors associated to this transition. We use life course theory and the concept of transitions to study this topic. Also life tables and two logistic models were elaborated.
The present research indicates that over the other axes, gender had a fundamental position in this transition because men and women continued making this transition following the traditional division of labor. It can be observed not only in the median ages when they got a job, that are different for each sexes, but also in their respective proportion of laboral participation and in the kind of job that they got for their first time.
Although differences between men and women by socioeconomic level were not statistically significant, this paper shows that gender inequalities conjugated with socioeconomic differences were disadvantages for certain groups.