There are fewer and fewer informal workers in Barranquilla

“If we have a city like Cartagenaone of the cities that reduced informality the most, and when this data is compared with the number of people in work, it also decreased in that city, while in Barranquilla the trend decreased in informality and there was an increase in the number of working people,” Hernández said.

On the other hand, the Danny showed that for the national total, in the quarter of August And October of 2023 the share of busy informal was 55.7%, which represented a decrease of 2.1 percentage points compared to the same quarter of the previous year, which was 57.9%.

The Dane considers all employees as informal employees. staff or domestic workers who have no health or pension contributions due to their employment relationship with the employer who hired them.

Likewise, they are considered informal busyby definition for all unpaid workers, but also for self-employed people and bosses or employers who are part of the informal sector.

Source: El heraldo

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