Unemployment levels are growing among the working population after age 40, in both men and women. And most are under 30 with precarious jobsoccasional jobs and with incomes below the poverty line.
So there’s a segment of the adult population that is registered job seeker, with enormous difficulty in obtaining it. And, at the same time, it is far from being able to access full pension, without resorting to a moratorium or accessing both women and men aged 65 to the PUAM (Adult Senior Benefit) with 80% of the minimum credit (today $ 40,099).
Eventually they would be “young” to retire completely and “old” to have stable jobs.
Meanwhile, among informal wage earners, higher rates of informality are observed in young people, under 30 years of age, which means that the “gateway” to the active labor market are precarious jobs without social security coverage. And after age 40, the majority have all but quit entering registered jobs.
The data comes from the Congressional Budget Office (OPC) which analyzed the situation of the registered and unregistered wage labor market.
On the other hand, in the last 10 years, and despite the population growth, the labor to private sector dependency ratio remained virtually stagnant, while the sum of the Monotributo Regime, which in many cases hides a dependency relationship, and the Social Monotributo, which includes precarious workers, assisted by the State, has increased by almost a million people. for his partpublic employment increased by 33%from 2.5 million to almost 3.4 million, according to data from the Ministry of Labour, based on Social Security registers.
It is no coincidence that women and young people under 35 predominate in the National Register of Workers in the Popular Economy (Renatep), which includes those who work in the informal sector, in conditions of poverty and extreme precariousness.
They are street vendors, people who work in community kitchens and picnic areas, mainly women, street vendors, artisans, cartoneros, informal garbage collectors, window cleaners, small farmers; and construction; those working in social infrastructure and environmental improvement, and small producers and manufacturing producers, among others.
Renatep already has 3,457,669 members and continues to grow. On average and according to the evolution of recent months there are 157,167 workers per month. And in 10 provinces, there are more registered workers than registered private workers before social security. They are Corrientes, Formosa, Santiago del Estero, Chaco, Jujuy, Salta, Misiones, Catamarca, Tucumán and La Rioja.
The categories of domestic services, trade and construction are those with the largest number of informal workers with average wages below the SMVM (Minimum, Vital and Mobile Wage).
Informal wage earners are the majority among those receiving wages below the poverty basket, and even “in families where at least one or one of the managers is an informal worker, poverty reaches 48%”. . This situation is mitigated in families where the other member of the couple has a regular job (salaried or not) or is already retired.
The Report adds that “in families where one of the managers is informal or unemployed, the indicators of living conditions worsen, even if there are regular workers who live in poor and even destitute houses”.
Thus, in almost 20% of households where at least one worker or woman with a registered job lives, she is below the poverty line. In this way a family cannot escape poverty with only one person permanently employed.
In this way the a new layer of new poor who come from formal wage-earning sectors, join informal wage-earners and non-wage-workers who integrate into an “impoverished” labor market or seek refuge in the so-called “subsistence social economy”. And that, at the same time, they could not survive without social assistance.
According to the latest Report of the Social Debt Observatory of the UCA (Argentine Catholic University) without these programs or social aid, the poverty rate would have reached 8% for almost 20% of the population, and the poverty rate instead by 43%, 50%, according to the Report of the Social Observatory of the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) based on data from the third quarter of this year.
For their part, although women are better educated than men among formal wage workers, men enter formal wage jobs before women that 50% have completed university education, while for men this percentage represents just over 25%. As observed for formal work (whether employed or not), women have better education levels than men
Source: Clarin
