Although unemployment remained at 7.6%, the informality rate recorded its highest level of the last year comparing with the different quarter of 2024 and 2025.
He unemployment reached 7.6% of the population During the second quarter and matched the indicator of the same period of the previous year, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC). Extrapolated to the total population, implies that 1.7 million Argentines They are without work.
“The labor market adjusts for quality, not by quantity”catapulted Luis CamposResearcher at the Institute of Studies and Training of the CTA – Autonomous. Is that Labor precarization It is current currency and advances in employment, within the Economically occupied population (44.5%)the informality rate reached 43.2%, with a growth of 1.6 percentage points (pp) compared to the same period last year. In this way, it marked a higher rate of the last year comparing with the different quarters of 2024 and 2025.
EMPLOYMENT: The labor market adjusts for quality
“The informality rate went from 41.6% The second quarter of 2024 to 43.2% in the same period of 2025. It is an increase of approximately 226,000 informal workers in one yearonly in urban agglomerates that relieve the EPH, “Campos said.
Of the total economically active population, the 72.4% of the employed are employees; Of these, 37.7% do not have a retirement discount, that is, they are informal. Within informal employees, 15.7% make their own contributions.
In addition, the employment rate by Own account He also advanced from 23% During the second semester of 2024 to 23.7% in the same period of this year; while the Amount of patterns grew from 3% to the 3.5% and that of family workers without remuneration went from 0.3% to the 0.4%.
When observing the Pressure on the labor market, which grew from 29.7% to 30.5%, an increase in occupied plaintiffs of 1.1 pp stands out(He passed from 16% to 17.1%), within which there is a decrease in Subocupados demanding from 0.2 pp (from 8.1% to 7.9%) and an increase of 1.4 pp of others occupied plaintiffs (from 7.9% to 9.3%).
“The labor category that showed greater dynamism, as in the first quarter, was the account of informal (those who do not even have to pay the monotax). In a year they went from representing 13.8% of the total occupied at 14.7%”the specialist emphasized.
The growth of informality occurs in a framework of deterioration of employment. As explained by the sociologist Daniel Schteingartthe salaried employment engine until 2011 was the private sector, although between 2011 and 2015 it was more than anything public, in a private stagnation. That last year was the peak of employment in Argentina and salary improvements.
INDEC – Unemployment by region
“If they join unoccupied (7.6%) and occupied plaintiffs (17.1%), in some cases the data is very striking. In three agglomerates more than 30%of workers are actively looking for work: Córdoba (38.2%), Tucumán (33.3%) and Santa Rosa (30.4%), “said Campos.
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