Mexico’s Informality Grows: More than 33 Million People · Global Voices
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Employment and informal employment in Guanajuato showed contrasting signs at the end of the second quarter of 2026. Occupation grew, but 54.8% of workers remained in some informal mode. In addition, unemployment increased to 3.2% of the economically active population. In turn, critical employment conditions reached 43.5%, compared to 40.2% in 2025. These figures are part of the National Survey of Occupation and Employment for the period April-Ju…
Mexico incorporated almost 600,000 people into the employed population during the last year, but most of the progress occurred in informality , a sign that the labor market continues to generate work without necessarily improving the quality of jobs at the same rate. In the second quarter of 2026 there were 60.04 million people employed, 599,334 more than in the same period of the previous year. However, the population in some form of informal e…
Mexico totaled 599 thousand people employed in one year, reaching 60 million, although informal work increased to 55.1% and the critical conditions of occupation reached 38%. The population occupied in some form of informality reached 33.1 million people, 495 thousand more than in the second quarter of 2025.
In the second quarter of 2026, the entity accounted for about 1.48 million people employed; the unemployment rate remained below the national average. Hidalgo recorded an informal labour rate of 72 per cent during the second quarter of 2026, a level considerably higher than the national average of 55.1 per cent, of [...] Hidalgo's position records 72% of informal work; unemployment is located at 2.2%: Inegi first appeared in Central MX News.
The National Survey of Occupation and Employment (ENOE) of the INEGI, reported that in the second quarter of this year, the employed population in the informal labour market was 33.1 million. This represented 55.1 % of the employed population, an increase of 495 thousand people compared to the same period. While the underemployed population, that [...] The article On the rise of informality in the country, in the 2Q this year: INEGI first appear…
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