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Informalidad y trabajadores pobres en Argentina (2003-2023)

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  • Poy, Santiago

    (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))

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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.

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  • Poy, Santiago, 2024. "Informalidad y trabajadores pobres en Argentina (2003-2023)," El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 91(364), pages 809-845, octubre-d.
    • Handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:91:y:2024:i:364:p:809-845
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20430/ete.v91i364.2543
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    Keywords

    : Informal employment; informal sector; in-work poverty; economic cycle.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E26 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Informal Economy; Underground Economy
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J5 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements

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