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January 11, 2021Foco Económico

Unpaid Family Work: Informal and no income, by Hugo Ñopo

“These people are probably in one of the most beautiful forms of cooperation and solidarity, but also in one of the most precarious working conditions. Is there anything more precarious than a zero-income labor informality?” Our Senior Researcher Hugo Ñopo writes in Foco Economico about who and where are unpaid family workers in Peru. Gathering the annual information from ENAHO, he finds that the majority are women and young people who do not study, and, within this group, the majority are those who did not finish their secondary studies.