INSEAI Blog
Stay up to date with our Blog, which offers analysis and commentary on the latest developments in understanding this phenomenon. Posts feature contributions from members of our network and other colleagues, analysts, and technicians interested in exploring the diverse aspects of informal activities and their key subjects.
Our Blog will feature analyses and commentaries on the main developments regarding informality in its various contexts, prepared by members of our INSEAI Network and other analysts of the phenomenon. They provide numerous insights, offering valuable multidisciplinary perspectives on informality, both theoretically and applied, particularly in relation to Europe and Latin America.
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Blog posts:
20.10.2026
Michael Frosch. The concept of informal economy is widely used. It appears in studies of poverty, productivity, social protection, labour market segmentation, entrepreneurship and economic development. Yet despite its importance, researchers often encounter a surprisingly basic challenge: people do not always mean the same thing when they talk about informality. » Read more
16.09.2026
María Agustina Paternó Manavella, ODSA-UCA. The research, based on annual data from the Argentine Social Debt Survey (2010–2025) and a longitudinal panel (2022–2024), identifies poverty, labour precarity and structural inequalities as key determinants, showing that vulnerability is three times higher under unstable economic and employment conditions. » Read more
20.08.2026
Florencia Antonella Nieva, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy. This article examines popular economies in Northern Argentina, proposing that they do not constitute mere "informality" but rather practices organized across three coexisting temporalities: immediate daily subsistence, historical processes of labor exclusion since the 1990s, and ancestral reciprocity practices. » Read more
23.07.2026
Juan Ignacio Bonfiglio, Universidad de Buenos Aires. The text shows that labor informality in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area is territorially concentrated and more strongly linked to structural habitat deprivation—housing, services, and living environment—than income poverty. This suggests that its most persistent effects are tied to historical urban inequalities and deep socio-spatial gaps. » Read more
24.06.2026
Nazarena Bauso, Universidad Católica Argentina. The article compares youth labour-market insertion in Argentina, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Poland to show that, although instability takes different forms — structural informality in Argentina and institutionalised flexibilisation in Europe — there are shared mechanisms to face it. » Read more
International Network for Knowledge and Comparative Socioeconomic Analysis of Informality and the Policies to be Implemented for their Formalization in the European Union and Latin America
Horizon Europe Project 101182756 — INSEAI 2023