Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Role of State Regulations in the Process of Informalization of Labor in Argentina. The Case of La Rioja, 1991-2001

本文研究了国家行为如何帮助阿根廷建立一个非正式的劳动力部门。过去的理论和研究认为非正规部门缺乏国家保护，但这一定义忽视了使非正规部门工作明确合法化的正式立法。例如，1991年阿根廷劳动法规定了临时、低工资、无保护的就业，减少了雇主对社会保障的缴款。这项研究将调查这项法律及其修正案对阿根廷拉里奥哈工人的影响。研究一个较小的城市将有助于扩大非正式部门的研究范围，超出通常关注的全球大城市。对劳动者的问卷调查、对政治、劳动界代表的深度访谈、官方统计、立法内容分析、报纸报道等，将收集多种多样的数据。

This dissertation investigates how state actions help to create an informal labor sector in Argentina. Past theory and research has identified the informal sector with the absence of state protection, but this definition neglects the formal legislation that explicitly legitimizes informal sector work. For instance, a 1991 Argentine labor law legislated temporary, low-wage, unprotected employment with reduced employer contributions to social security. The research will investigate the impact of this law and its amendments on workers in La Rioja, Argentina. Studying a smaller city will help expand the scope of research on the informal sector beyond the usual focus on large global cities. A wide variety of data will be collected including surveys of workers, in-depth interviewers with political and labor leaders, official statistics, and content analyses of legislation and newspaper coverage.