A small table where there are masks and bags with grains is the improvised shop of Sonora Espinosa, a 60-year-old unemployed woman who looks for her daily livelihood on the busy Central Avenue of the capital of Panama. The hustle and bustle of December is over and in these first weeks of January the movement […]
Tag: Informality
Income of informal workers is 36% lower than before the pandemic
Informal workers they receive 64% of the income they received before the pandemic of COVID-19, that is 36% less than before the health crisis, according to a global study carried out by the association Women in informal employment: globalizing and organizing (Wiego, for its acronym in English). The investigation called Informal Economy and COVID-19 reveals […]
SNI: Informality of mypes in the second quarter grew 0.9% compared to 2019
According to information from the Institute of Economic and Social Studies (IEES) of the National Society of Industries (SNI)During the second quarter of 2021, labor informality in micro and small companies (mypes) was 84.2%, which represents an increase of 0.9% compared to the second quarter of 2019, a year without a pandemic. Likewise, the IEES […]