Informalidad y trabajadores pobres en Argentina (2003-2023)

Santiago Poy
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Santiago Poy: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet) y Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política (IIEP) y Centro de Estudios sobre Población, Empleo y Desarrollo (CEPED)

El Trimestre Económico, 2024, vol. 91 (4), issue 364, 809-845

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyze the relationship between working poverty and informality, based on the Argentine case of the last two decades. We examine the net effect of labor informality on monetary poverty and under which labor, socio-demographic, and family conditions informality is more strongly associated with poverty. We use micro data from the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses’ (INDEC) Permanent Household Survey and apply microsimulations and multivariate analysis. The results show that informality is a structural component of the urban labor market and that the net effect of informality is relevant and sustained over time. However, they also reveal that the relationship between informality and poverty is not straightforward: most informal insertions are not directly linked to economic deprivation. The risk of poverty among the informally employed is explained not only by the characteristics of their occupations, but also by sociodemographic characteristics, dependency rates in their households, and the low protective capacity of social benefits.

Keywords: : Informal employment; informal sector; in-work poverty; economic cycle. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E26 J21 J5 J62 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.20430/ete.v91i364.2543

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