sponds to undeclared labor. No a single country defies this problem. The Columbian example is extreme: over 60% of active workers work illegally and 250,000 people have swollen the ranks of the informal economy over the first 2010 quarter. In countries considered as the region’s economic driving forces, this proportion is smaller but the rights of undeclared workers are overridden, be it the ban on unionization in Argentina, the lack of working hours in Mexico or slavery in Brazil.
Mexico.
In Mexico, there are 12.2 million undeclared workers according to official statistics, i.e. 28.1% of the active population. However, unions, the Bank of Mexico and the ILO consider that, in reality, the number is much higher, around 45-50% of workers, meaning that, out of 45 million active people, about 20 million would perform undeclared work.