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Les extendemos la invitación al seminario que organiza el Departamento de Economía, en el que se presentará el trabajo titulado "Short-term labour transitions and informality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America".

Expone: Roxana Maurizio, Investigadora, Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política.

Co-autores: Ana Paula Monsalvo, Sol Catania, Silvana Martinez.

Abstract: Latin America was one of the regions hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper analyses, from a dynamic and comparative perspective, labour transitions triggered by the pandemic in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, and Peru. Special attention is given to transits around labour informality. Unlike previous crises, the fall in informal occupations exacerbated the overall contraction in employment. This is explained by a significant increase in exit rates from these jobs and, to a lesser extent, by reductions in entry rates. Most of the informal workers who lost their jobs left the labour force. On the contrary, transits from informal to formal jobs significantly dropped during the most critical phase in this crisis. However, the partial recovery in employment since mid-2020 has been led by the increase in informal jobs. The labour dynamic has been different between men and women. The study reveals the relevance of dynamic analysis to clearly identify labour transitions that occurred during a labour crisis of unprecedented intensity and characteristics in Latin America.

El formato será presencial y el seminario se desarrollará en la Sala P-304.

Saludos cordiales,

Dirección de Investigación