O subemprego e a informalidade: breve discussão acerca do trabalho inadequado a partir de uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

Underemployment is a peculiar socioeconomic situation for which there is a relatively extensive literature that deals with it, although it is seldom specific, especially when it embodies informality. In view of this, this study describes, based on Latin American scientific production and with the support of economic theory and in multidisciplinary works, the relationships already researched between underemployment and informality, using an exploratory approach in the literature review. We seek, as far as possible, to find ways that connect the published literature on underemployment and informality in concomitance or even in confrontation with economic theory, establishing the importance of this discussion in the path of development, in addition to interweaving analogous concepts that allow a definition specific to underemployment with regional characteristics.