What activities have more unregistered wages than formal ones

Four out of 10 wages in the private sector are unregistered. There are nearly 5 million (41.4%) out of a total of 12,030,000. Of the 4 activities there were more unregistered than registered: Staff of Private Houses (66.5%), agro (66.2%), construction (55.9%) at Hotels-Restaurants (50.4%).

These are INDEC data, from the IV quarter of 2021, which marks a strong advance in the specificity and poverty of workers. And with the breakdown of wages, the share of wages for wage work decreases with the cost of production.

Data from the body headed by Marco Lavagna indicates that, from the beginning of the series in 2016 to the end of 2021, the jobs of private registered wage sand decreased from 7,198,000 to 7,052,000. while, those “unregistered” from 4,753,000 rose to 4,975,000 and the unpaid (“independent”) from 4,957,000 to 5,281,000.

The rise of private employment at that time focused on the unregistered and self-employed who also has a strong informal record. Public employment rose from 3,449,000 to 3,649,000

activities with higher informal records are domestic personnel (1,006,000 jobs), construction (494,000), agriculture (659,000), trade (777,000) and industry (562,000).

Those who are not registered lack social workthere is no coverage for work accidents and is not eligible for Social Security retirement and pension benefits.

In the City of Buenos Aires, the Department of Buenos Aires explained that “The recovery in jobs this quarter has been faster to those without retirement discount (30.7%). It should be noted that the comparison is made against the period that the ASPO is in effect and then the DISPO, when the severance of positions is still affected, especially the wage populations without social security registration and the self- employed population. registration and/or no regular payment ”.

In particular, “the domestic service is one of the occupational groups particularly affected by the health emergency. In the fourth quarter of 2021, employment hardly expanded compared to the same period last year, and almost 35% lower than the level before the pandemic (2019). The income of those working in these activities has an average increase of 43.8% ”, which is less than 50.9% of national inflation.

Meanwhile, “the income growth of the population with a discounted salary (52.5%) is more than equal to the income of the population without a discount (45.2%)”.

This decline in labor was accompanied by a deterioration in the participation of labor compensation in the cost of production: from representing 51.8% of the “cake” at the end of 2016, it fell to 43.1% in 2021. While the business sector went from 48 to 54.3%

This bailout in part “cake” in the cost of production is explained by the decline in wages of registered workers, especially between 2017/2019 and to a greater extent due to the low salaries of the “unregistered” who, on average, earn 50% less. And because of the decline in job wages in favor of self-employment.

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