Calculating and Analyzing the Informal Employment in Economic Sectors and Estimating the Lost Social Security Resources

 Most social security resources in Iran are based on receiving insurancepremiums while employment in the informal sector reduces the number ofinsurers. Thus, informal employment causes the loss of income sources of the Social Security Organization

Due to the importance of the issue of lost financial resources for the Social Security Organization, in the present study, by calculating the amount ofinformal employment in economic sectors between 1392 and 1398, we try toestimate and analyze the lost financial resources due to informal employment.

For this purpose, using the expenditure and income data of households in the mentioned period and using the indicators of social insurance and the minimum legal wage, the amount of informal employment was measured interms of regions and economic sectors, and the structure was analyzed. Then,using a descriptive method and applying the concept of expandable informalemployment, the number of resources lost in the major economic sectors andrelated sectors was calculated provincially and nationally.

The results indicate that first, in the studied years, the share of informalemployment in total employment has increased. Also, among the four majoreconomic sectors, the agricultural sector has the highest number of informalemployees. Second, the financial resources lost due to informal employment havedecreased during this period. In addition, among the four major economic sectors,the industries and mines sector has got the most lost social security resources.