Argentina. The Argentine Association of Audiovisual Publishers presented a new statistical publication on the employment situation of audiovisual publishers: the EDA Report 2012-2017 has 50 pages of data and analysis on the context of the last six years of the audiovisual industry in Argentina and a focus on the activity of publishers.
Most relevant data that the report yielded:
- Job placement: the number of young people with less than 5 years of experience decreased. While in 2012 they represented 35% of the workforce, in 2017 they reached only 15%.
- Unemployment: While 2015 was the year with the most active professionals (51% worked without breaks), in 2016 continuous work fell to 36%
- In 2016, 15% of respondents declared -for the first time- to be "6 months without working", a response absent in previous years.
- The paradigm shift in the production of content with state promotion: State TV (Public TV, Encuentro, Paka Paka, DeporTV) that in the years 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 brought together between 25 and 36% of the jobs, fell 20 percentage points between 2015 and 2017.
- State TV went from 35% of labor demand in 2015, to 15% in 2017.
- The growth of the Internet and streaming as exhibition destinations: the great highlight of the year-on-year evolution is the greater presence of the Internet and Social Networks as a dissemination destination.
- In 2017, the Internet has come to equate to Private TV with 25% of the exhibition output.
- Contractual conditions: A year-on-year decrease in informality in the contracting modality is detected. However, 4 out of 10 workers declare that they are still in irregular conditions (monotax and payments without a contract or invoice).
- In the film industry, the growth of registered work and under agreement is the most consolidated and rising.
- Gender inequality: Women, even the most experienced and active, do not receive the same salaries as men in similar positions.
- Male editors have greater job stability than women in the same positions. 38% of men responded to work in their position between 1 and 3 years. The same percentage of women declared work continuity of "up to 3 months".
- Although in the last ten years approximately the same number of women and men graduate from tertiary and university careers linked to the audiovisual sector, the percentage of women who develop jobs in the industry is still much lower.
- Of 168 feature films released in 2017, 57.73% were edited by men, 27.38% by women and another 10.11% were co-edited by editors.
For the full report, click here.
