Abstract

GRANA, Juan M.; LASTRA, Facundo  and  WEKSLER, Guido. The quality of employment in recent Argentina: an analysis of its relationship with the qualification and size of productive units in comparative perspective. Trab. soc. [online]. 2022, vol.23, n.38, pp.423-447.  Epub Jan 01, 2022. ISSN 1514-6871.

This article aims at studying the quality of working arrangements in Argentina from a comparative perspective, focusing on its relation to the size of production units and job qualification. With this purpose, we analyse the Argentinean labour market in comparison to the USA and to a selection of 10 European countries representing the different degrees of national development existing in that continent (Germany, Bulgaria, Denmark, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom and Romania). Based on data from household surveys, we analyse 9 occupational profiles defined by the job qualification level and the firm size. The paper illustrates the magnitude of income gaps and the differences in the quality of working arrangements between Argentina and developed countries. Argentina shows a high concentration of employment in small production units, a relatively small share of high complexity jobs and worse indicators for job quality for all the profiles. In all the countries from the set, we find a stratification of wages according to complexity level and firm size. However, the size of production units determines such stratification more strongly, while income gaps are set at a lower absolute level of average wages.

Keywords : Precarity; Argentina; International Comparison; Labour-market.

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