There are more than 5 million employees in a black addiction relationship and it is a record

Unregistered wage earners already exceed 5 million workers. It is equivalent to 41.6% of a total of 12,259,000 jobs in private employmentINDEC’s second “Income Generation and Labor Input Account” for the first quarter of this year and which was released on Wednesday.

In addition, there are 5,531,000 independent jobs – a high percentage of which are precarious and informal – and 3,664,000 in the public sector. In total there are 21,455,000 jobs.

Indec data shows that in the last year there was a strong growth in unregistered salaried jobswhich have been severely affected by the pandemic and restrictions on activity.

Thus, from 4,815,000 in the first quarter of 2019, they fell to 4,533,000 in the same period of 2021 and are now 5,100,000: an increase of 12.5%, equal to 567,000 jobs, exceeding the pre-pandemic threshold. . Over the same period, the economy grew by 10%.

41.6% is a record for the first quarter since 2016, when the Indec survey series began.

The INDEC clarifies that “the number of jobs does not coincide with the number of employed, as a person who declares himself employed can carry out more than one job, that is, carry out secondary and other activities”.

In three activities there are more unregistered than registered: personnel of private homes (68.2%), agricultural (59.5%) and construction (57.2%).

These are official figures that mark the strong progress of the precariousness and impoverishment of the workforce. And together with the deterioration of wages, the participation of the remuneration of wage labor in the value of production has decreased.

Indec data indicate that, from the beginning of the series in 2016 to the first quarter of 2022, end to end, the jobs of registered private employees fell from 7,213,000 to 7,159,000.

Meanwhile, the “non-enrolled” from 4,404,000 increased by 5,100,000, the self-employed (“independent”) from 4,718,000 to 5,531,000 and public employment increased from 3,400,000 to 3,664,000. .

The increase in private employment in all these years has been concentrated in the unregistered and the self-employed which also has a strong record of informality.

Part of this informality is the work of the “Popular Economy” which, as of February, had 3,225,268 unregistered “independent” workers.

Many of them are street vendors, people who work in community kitchens and picnic areas, mainly women, street vendors, artisans, cardboard collectors, informal garbage collectors, car window washers, small farmers; and construction; those who work in social infrastructure and environmental improvement and small manufacturing producers, among others, according to the National Register of Workers of the Popular Economy (RENATEP)

The businesses with the highest number of informal employees are domestic staff (1,072,000 jobs), construction (537,000), agriculture (513,000), trade (880,000) and industry (615,000).

Those who are not enrolled do not have social security, are not covered for accidents at work and are not entitled to social security and pension benefits. And they also explain why when they reach retirement age they do not reach 30 years of contributions to access the pension.

In conjunction with the Indec, the Department of Statistics and Census of the City of Buenos Aires reported that “favorable employment developments over the past year have been associated with informal employment growthin which low-skilled positions are the most characteristic segment “.

The Department of Buenos Aires adds that “the results show that the absorption of the workforce is driven by the unregulated employee. The segment made up of those who do not take advantage of pension discounts or who contribute alone to social security has had an interannual increase of 15.4% and 5.5% compared to two years ago “.

This decline in work was accompanied by a deterioration in the participation of labor remuneration in the value of production: to represent 54.2% of the “cake” at the beginning of 2016, it fell to 49.8% in the first quarter of 2019 and 46. , 9% at the beginning of this year.

This reduction in the share of the “pie” in the value of production is explained by the decline in the wages of the registered workers, and to a greater extent by the low wages of the “non-registered” workers who, on average, earn 50% less. And because of the decline in waged jobs in favor of self-employed workers.