These are two of the official data that Cristina de Kirchner observes the most: income distribution and unregistered work. And the official numbers are not to be “celebrated”.
Is that the INDEC figures mark a sharp decline in employee participation in the value of production or turnover of companies: to represent 51.2% of the “cake” in the third quarter of 2016, the “remuneration from work” fell to 45.7% in the third quarter of 2019, during the previous Government, it fell still, with the current Government at 43.8%% in the same period of 2021 and al 43.6% in the third quarter of 2022 . And all this despite the fact that economic activity and the level of employment exceed those of the end of 2019.
This reduction in the share of the “pie” due to the workers can be explained by the drop in the wages of registered workers, the advancement of “non-registered” wage earners – who, on average, They charge 50% less than registered ones. And because of the increase in self-employment, even with the majority working in the informal sector.
The second official figure is that irregular wage earners amount to 5,270,000 workers, aa record number for a third quarter since 2016, year in which the new INDEC series began with 4,778,000 unregistered wage earners in the third quarter of that year.
The 5,270,000 informal wage earners are equivalent to 42.1 percent of a total of 12,527,000 wage earner jobs in private employment, according to the “Income Generation and Labor Input Account” which was released from this Thursday of the INDEC.
There is also 5,290,000 freelance jobs – most of whom are precarious and informal – and 3,682,000 in the public sector. In total there are 21,499,000 jobs compared to 20,326,000 a year ago. There are 1,173,000 more jobs.
INDEC data shows that in the last year, after the quarantine and the pandemic, more than half of the increase in employment – 605,000 – was concentrated in the jobs of irregular workers. Among the members, the increase was 297,000 people. And in self-employment, mostly informal, which increased by 195,000.
In the public sector, job positions increased from 3,606,000 to 3,682,000.
In four businesses there are more non-registered workers than registered workers: households out of 1,610,000 employed, 1,107,000 non-registered (68.8%), agriculture and livestock 922,000 wage-earners, 594,000 non-registered. (64.4%), construction with 981,000 employed, 548,000 not enrolled (55.9%) and private social-health services out of 712,000, 387,000 (54.3%) not enrolled.
All these official data that mark the strong advance of the precariousness and impoverishment of the workforce. And along with the deterioration in wages, labor costs and the share of wages and salaries of employees in the distribution of the pie have progressively declined.
In conjunction with the INDEC, based on data from the third quarter of last year, the Directorate of Statistics and Censuses of the city of Buenos Aires reported that “in the city, 292,000 wage earners make up the population without registration in social security or who contribute exclusively by themselves without their employer applying the pension discounts provided for by law.This means that one employee out of four is in precarious working conditions”.
Non-subscribers lack of social assistance, they have no coverage against occupational accidents and are not entitled to retirement benefits and retirement benefits. And it also explains why when they reach retirement age they don’t meet the 30 years of contributions to access retirement.
Source: Clarin
