Argentina, in 2025, is no longer a fertile terrain. It is a geography where formal employment agonizes and informal work queen with firm pulse. The latest permanent Household Survey of INDEC (EPH) reports that labor informality reached the 42% of the employed population in the 31 main urban agglomerates at the close of the fourth quarter of 2024.
Almost 11 million Argentines They survive without retirement contributions, without health coverage, without license or basic rights. This is not adjustment, it is abandonment.
From the end of 2023 to March 2025, informal employment grew in 224 thousand peoplewhile formal private employment fell into 115 thousandand the state in 50 thousand.
At the same time, the unemployment rate went from 6.4% to a worrying 7.9%something not seen since 2021. (For my opinion, we are 10%)
The official economy boasts a “recovery,” inflation fell, achieved surplus, but the labor market looks more like an intensive therapy patient than a full recovery.
The employer sector is increasingly desperate, Feeling the weight of ark (in my consultant we receive an embargo per day of our clients).
The “liberal miracle” has a high price, measured in salary losses, impoverishment and generalized unprotection.
Formal private barely lift 3.3% above inflation; The public sector suffers from between 15–17% in real terms. But informal workers win up 41% less than a formal equivalentaccording to Roxana Maurizio, of Conicet. Having work is no longer a guarantee of dignity or possibility of projecting future.
And hunger? While inflation is relieved, 53% of Argentines coexist with poverty. Many search food in tachos; Others accept jobs without protection networks, just not to go hungry. The data is sad poetry: macro stability continues to leave the most vulnerable outside the national plot.
Informality is concentrated in young people (almost the 60% of children under 29 are out of the formal system) and in the proprietary ones (more than the 62% in informality).
Gender does not stop the scourge: women reach a 43% informality in front of the 40.9% of men. The sectors with more precariousness: domestic work (80%) and construction (also about 80%). The phenomenon is voracious, deep, structural.
Why does it happen? Because the economic model rigorously discharges formal employment, tensioning productive structures that were already fragile.
To do?
- Reactivate formal employment with benefit and incentivenot with imposition; Soft credits, temporary reduction of social loads for new additions, and sector policies that protect employers.
- Regularize the accounting: generate special regimes that formalize without suffocating; Acknowledgments of proportional contributions, basic coverage and ordered transition.
- Statistics as a compass: The new INDEC report on informality is valuable; You have to strengthen it, transparent it, take advantage of it for accurate policies, not for drills.
- Look at the future without losing the past: Honor national production, work dignity, the ability to protect. The pillars of a national culture must be employment with rights, not market salvage at any cost.
The future does not expect: it is now or never. If we do not stop this drift, without mercy or awareness, Employment will be an obsolete artifact, replaced by informal survival. Argentina deserves more. It deserves work dignity, human growth and real democracy. As Benedetti said, “You have to be careful with dreams,” But you also have to dream a country to work is not a conviction.
Lawyer. Specialist in Work and Employment. Master in Employment and Judicial Innovation. Diploma in AI applied to management in digital environments, it makes it clear that employment is worse, informality raises, employers are against the ropes, and Ark Strong
Source: Ambito
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