The sociology of informality in Peru

With the passing of the years, informal business keeps growing and growing, and we as members of this society haven't done something to change our reality, but what is our reality? To start talking about our reality, we need to focus on the common and little things. We can find informality from a bus stop to the emporium of sale, also we can identify how this affects different aspects of the country, how this affects our evolution like society and the innovations that would be created. For this reason, to identify the beginning of the problem is essential for finding a solution. In 2020, the informal labor rate increased up to 75% (Luis Sáenz) of the total population, resulting in 11,2 million informal workers. According to specialists such as the well-known sociologist Jorge Yamamoto, one of the main problems that cause this culture of informality is the lack of empathy, morals, and ideals in the Peruvian society. And as a fact, 53% of informal businesses don't think it's ...

Conceptual approaches to informality, both labor and urban, define it from the breaking of the law. Authors such as Portes (1997) locate informality as a structural aspect of capitalism, while others, such as De Soto (1990), locate its generating matrix in the State and, in particular, in the law and its high fences of access to education. formality. The common element to these conceptualizations, and around which various authors can be organized, is that agents and actors, commonly guided by economic interest, act outside the law. Actually, more properly, they combine activities between the legal and the illegal, that is, they adopt a spiral behavior, staying or crossing the legal fence according to their interest.   There are various practices in the cities of this spiral behavior of agents and actors. A very common one, extended to various social classes, are the "closed condominiums" in their type of placement of bars that close streets for citizen security. The same ac...

The informal sector is made up of the set of companies, workers and activities that operate outside the legal framework and the rules that regulate economic activity. Therefore, being part of the informal sector means avoiding paying taxes and legal regulations, but it also means a lack of protection and services that the government could provide you. That is why we want to identify and internalize not only the economic aspect, but also the way in which informality is enhanced by the needs and sense of survival that, due to external or internal situations in our country, affect the population and trigger various problems. as is informality. Informality is the distorted way in which an overly regulated economy responds both to the shocks it faces and to its growth potential. informality entails the loss of the advantages offered by legality: police protectionand judicial, access to formal credit, and the ability to participate in international markets.  Although the definition of in...