According to a report by the consulting firm Analytica, the improvement in the labor market during the third quarter of 2025 did not lead to a recovery in job quality. The positions created were characterized by instability, poor conditions, and low incomes. The report, accessed by the Argentine News Agency (NA), warned that «the quality of employment continues to deteriorate» despite an increase in the number of employed people, specifying that «the jobs generated are essentially unstable, of poor quality, and with low incomes». In this context, it revealed that «the dominant feature was the advance of informality, which rose from 42.6% to 43.3% of the employed in the year-on-year comparison» and pointed out that «the reduction in unemployment thus occurred in a context where 85% of the net creation of jobs was concentrated in more unstable and lower-income jobs». The increase in informality observed in the third quarter of 2025 was not homogeneous but was mainly among the self-employed. Among salaried workers, informality remained practically stable in the year-on-year comparison, standing at around 36.7%. In contrast, among the self-employed, informality is not only structurally higher but also accelerated from 61.9% to 64.9% in a year, consolidating itself as the category with the highest incidence of informal employment. In this regard, Analytica considered that «far from being a sign of entrepreneurial dynamism, the advance of informality among the self-employed reflects, in many cases, the lack of alternatives for insertion into stable salaried jobs». In the analysis by age groups, the report noted that «the improvement observed in labor indicators did not translate into a more solid insertion for young people», indicating that the drop in unemployment «was mainly explained by a drop in the activity rate and not by an expansion of employment». In this sense, it stated that «the lack of attractive job opportunities leads to abandoning the search for employment» by emphasizing that «young people continue to be the group most affected by informality, with predominantly precarious labor insertions». Regarding the reality of household heads, the report specified that «they show a more rigid and worrying dynamic», detailing that the activity rate increased and «this translated into an increase in unemployment with a smaller increase in employment». On this aspect, it sketched that «the risk is that, given that household heads have less margin to withdraw from the labor market and in the absence of unemployment coverage, they have greater pressure to accept informal or low-stability jobs». The labor improvement observed was not uniform at the national level, accentuating territorial complexity.
