Chile's Informal Employment Rate Hits 27.0% in Q2 as 114,606 More Workers Enter
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Updated · IndexBox, Inc. · Aug 7
Chile's Informal Employment Rate Hits 27.0% in Q2 as 114,606 More Workers Enter
1 articles · Updated · IndexBox, Inc. · Aug 7
Summary
Chile’s informal employment rate rose to 27.0% in the April-June quarter, up 1.0 percentage point from a year earlier, as the number of informal workers increased 4.7% to 2,537,804.
114,606 additional informal workers were driven by gains among women, up 6.6%, and men, up 3.2%, with the sharpest age-group increases in workers aged 35-44 and those 65 and older.
Commerce and administrative and support services led the sectoral rise, while service and sales workers and elementary occupations had the biggest occupational impact.
Own-account workers, private-sector wage earners and employers accounted for most of the increase; own-account workers and private-sector employees together made up 86.7% of all informal employment.
INE defines informal employment as work lacking access to social protections such as healthcare and pensions, including informal-sector self-employment and unpaid family work.