In the quarter March, April, May 2023, the employed population of Metropolitan Lima reached 5 million 161,700 people, which means an increase of barely 1% (48,700 workers) compared to the same period in 2022. While compared to the pre-pandemicthe employed population increased by 6% (294,200), according to the technical report Labor Market Situation of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI).
Thus, the unemployment rate of Metropolitan Lima between March and May of this year it stood at 6.8%, with which It is estimated that 375,300 people seek employment in the capital during this period. This figure is 0.4 percentage point lower than that registered in the same quarter of 2022.
Men or women: who are the most unemployed?
Breaking down the figures, in the moving quarter of analysis, more than half of unemployed people are women, reaching 195,700 women (52.1%) and 179,700 men (47.9%). So, the rate of unemployment The unemployment rate for women was 7.6%, while the unemployment rate for men was 6%.
It should be noted that, during the same period in 2019, the unemployment rate female stood at 8.3%, higher by 2.9 percentage points than that registered in the male population (5.4%).
Source: Larepublica
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