Abstract

POY, Santiago. The working poor facing the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in a segmented labor market: the case of Argentina. Estud. trab. [online]. 2021, n.62, pp.55-85. ISSN 0327-5744.

The objective of this paper is to analyze the way in which the socioeconomic and health crisis due to the COVID-19 outbreak had consequences on in-work poverty in Argentina. Microdecompositions techniques were used to examine the determinants of the changes in poverty rates, whereas logistic regression on panel data was used to analyze the factors associated with the transition from out of poverty to in-work poverty. Data come from the Permanent Household Survey (EPH) of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC). The main findings are a) the increase of in-work poverty is explained mainly by the sharp fall in the households’ number of occupied and the reduction of the income per occupied, while cash transfers reduced in-work poverty; b) workers who lived in households with high dependency rates, informal workers and those who worked in economic sectors severely affected by the restrictions were the most exposed to entering in-work poverty.

Keywords : Poverty; Labor Market Segmentation; COVID-19; Informal employment.

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