Unemployment dropped in the last month registered according to INDEC. According to a private report, the figures will not shoot, even in recessive contexts, because there is a proliferation of occupations that generates partial statistical coverage. It’s about People who work through platforms or self -employ and that enter the category of employed, but do not necessarily access conditions worthy of hiring.
The study belongs to the Institute for Argentine Social Development (IDESA) and stressed that the current problem is “The loss of good quality jobs (formal wage earners) is compensated with the increase in accounting account. “
Quality jobs vs precarious jobs
“Digital platforms are a fast job of labor source for both people who run out of work and for those who want to enter from inactivity,” said the report but also warned that, although it prevents unemployment, unemployment, This expansion is not accompanied by a structural improvement in the labor system.
However, he insists that “So far there were partial advances eliminating some of the most severe distortions of labor legislation, such as the multiplication of compensation for dismissal“But that the necessary transformations are still pending, because”The same obsolete regulations and bad practices within labor justice are still valid in the substantial“
The study also shows that the perception of lack of employment is real, although it is not fully manifested in the open unemployment rate.
“Among the people who say they have a lack of employment, the growth of occupied plaintiffs and available duplicate to the unemployed“, warns the document.”The employment problem in Argentina is more quality (precarious and poorly paid jobs) than quantity“, summarizes the report.
Unemployment: What is the current situation in Argentina
He unemployment He reached 6.4% in the fourth quarter of 2024 in the 31 urban agglomerateswhich implies a rise of 0.7 percentage points (pp) Regarding the same period last year, when it was located in the 5.7%as reported by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC).
Extrapolated to the total number of Argentines, 1,470,000 people of the economically active population (PEA – 48.8% of the total) are without work.
However, the unemployment scored his lowest level from the government of Javier Milei. While in the first three months of 2024 the indicator reached 7.7%in it Second trimester decelerated 7.6%, in the third it reached 6.9%, and closed last year by 6.4%.
It should be noted that, the first data of 2024 was a consequence of a strong recession in the economyas well as the Public jobs chainsaw. In addition, the fall in purchasing power also led to An increase in occupied Argentines that, in turn, They are looking for a new job.
Meanwhile, the Subocupation rate It was located in the 11.3% of the PEAwhile the others occupied plaintiffs and the others Non -demanding occupied available They reached, together, the 11.6% of the PEA. Consequently, the pressure on the labor market, made up of the universe of unemployed, subocupos, occupied demanding and occupied not Available plaintiffs, reached 29.4% of the PEA.
Source: Ambito
