Trabalho informal no Brasil: causas, consequências e o impacto para Previdências Social

Abstract

This research aims to study and analyze informal work in Brazil. To verify the causes, consequences and financial impact on Social Security. Having as main reference the years 2012 to 2023. The bibliographic research was developed from scientific articles, reports, books and previously published works. The methodology used was directed to the collection of secondary data of a quantitative nature with the application of descriptive statistics through the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) and publications of the Ministry of Social Security (MPS), and in publications of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The main results found were: black informal workers represent 53.7%, men represent 51.7%, regarding education, 77.2% have no education and 32.9% have completed higher education. In 2022, the number of informal workers was 39.5 million, with a small reduction in 2023 to 39.2 million, this represents 39.1% of the employed population in the country, the annual informality rate, which in 2022 was 39.4%, rose to 39.2% in 2023. Informal workers who contribute to Social Security total an average of 26%, in the projection carried out between the year (2019-2023) with an individual contribution rate of 11% on the minimum wage in relation to the average of workers who do not contribute, Social Security would have an average collection of R$ 43,289,353,400 per year.