Work Informality Continues to Be a Structural Problem in Bucaramanga | Local

Out of 100 workers in Bucaramanga and the surrounding area According to the measure of informal employment and the social security of the National Administrative Department of Statistics, Dane, of the 553,000 workers who registered in Bucaramanga and its metropolitan area during the March quarter.-by 2018, at least 308 thousand informal jobs exercised, or 55, 6%.

This meant a decrease of 0.8 percentage points, pps, compared to the same period of 2017, and 0.6 pps compared to the quarter from February to April 2018.

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Despite this decline, for Isaac Guerrero Rincon, professor of economics at the Industrial University of Sa ntander, ISU, the l '. Informality of work is a structural problem and results from the lack of equality, not only in the workplace, but also educational and social

"There is a relationship between poverty and informality. seek to fill these gaps, informal will never be resolved, "says the university professor.

Fenalco Santander says that it is one of the aspects that has most affected the trade these last months, despite the fact that the city has maintained its According to Dane statistics, the situation in the first three places is a benchmark for employability at the national level.

"It's a fact that obeys various situations such as smuggling and the mbad arrival of emigrants, "says the federation.] We suggest: 55.6% of workers in Bucaramanga are informal

Informality in the cities

During the According to the measure of the agency, 48.5% of the people employed in the 23 main cities were informal.

42.8% of Non-formal workers were concentrated in the Commerce, Hotel and Restaurant sector On the other hand, 62.8% were mainly self-employed (self-employed, various trades, among others).

"These are economic activities that require low-skilled personnel for this type of employment," he said. Isaac Guerrero Rincón

According to the Dane, among the employees registered in the March-May 2018 mobile quarter, 93.2% declared to be affiliated to social security in health and 48.8% contributed with pensions.