LABOUR INFORMALITY OF YOUNG PEOPLE AT RISK OF EXCLUSION IN MICROENTERPRISES IN THE COMMERCIAL SECTOR OF THE CITY OF DURANGO

Abstract

Maria Luisa Gonzalez Marin provides us with a frame of reference to analyze the informality of microenterprises. On the one hand, it allows us to point out the meaning of informality in the labor field, since it is identified with activities that do not satisfy fiscal norms, labor legislation, etc., and whose benefits do not have repercussions on the accumulation of wealth, but rather their efforts are focused on daily survival. The commercial sector, as reported by the data from the National Employment Survey (2000), has a feminization index of 78.2 (women among men x 100), which indicates that it is highly feminized, especially in the urban commercial areas of Mexico. Durango is no exception, with indexes of 89.5% for the municipality and 90.5% for the city of the same name. This fact normally implies that part of them are employed by low incomes, without social security or protection of labor laws. Informality and gender come together and impact vulnerable groups such as young single mothers in this research, establishing that approximately 68% of commercial microenterprises in the city of Durango (Garrido and Hernández, 2004) have conditions within informality, thus dimensioning their situation in the labor aspect.