Covid-19 and social inequality: Economic measures in mercosur countries

The Covid-19 pandemic is creating a health crisis and many economic difficulties Uncertainties regarding the future are of great concern, not only in Brazil, but also in our MERCOSUR neighbors The purpose of this paper is to explore the situation that workers in the economic bloc and how they will face the health and economic crisis The objective is to investigate the economic measures taken by the governments of each MERCOSUR country and how they will affect household income, increasing social inequality The procedural methods used in the present work were the historical study, through a brief bibliographic analysis of the emergence of social inequality and its concept;logical-deductive, through a bibliographic search, consultation of the Human Rights legislation and conventions, in scientific articles and on specialized websites, inferring the facts and premises, about the publication of the actions of each country and their effects in the worsening of inequality Social The results obtained after the research carried out in the present study, demonstrate that, the common measure was the suspension of the employment contract with the reduction of workers' wages, and consequently, they will be subject to the impacts caused by the pandemic and the economic crisis, further aggravating social inequality, which is common to the bloc's countries Therefore, it is realized that it will be essential for governments to seek the effectiveness of Human Rights, implementing social protection measures to face the pandemic and its economic consequences © 2020, Centro Universitrio Curitiba - UNICURITIBA All rights reserved