Between November 2024 and January 2025, 1 million 981,000 people in Metropolitan Lima They found themselves in a situation of underemploymentthat is, they served in precarious working conditions, according to data from the Technical Report Labor Market Situation of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI).
Thus, compared to the period Prepandymia 2019, underemployment in the capital It increased by 195,000 people, which represents an increase of 0.8 percentage points.
The population income underemployedthat is to say, those who receive as salary less than S/892, reached 1 million 576,500 people in said mobile quarter (7.2 percentage points more than in 2019). The highest volume of affected They are 45 years old.
According to ILO, 72% of Peruvians work in informality.
In branches per activity, the bulk of these workers works in the Services (770,000), follows trade (538,000), manufacturing (188,000) and construction (64,000).
On the other hand, 404,800 work with insufficiency of hours (visible underemployment), for the same study period.
Following the detail of the report, women are the most affected by revenue underemployment: 971,000, compared to 604,000 men in the capital’s precarious labor market.
From the other shore, 3 million 479,600 in Lima are properly employed, that is, they receive the benefits corresponding to law as payment of CTS, Gratificationsamong others.
Unemployment remains the same as prepaniam
He INEI He informed that, the unemployment rate of Metropolitan Lima It was 6.2% and it is estimated that around 358,100 people actively seek work.
In relation to the presitmary period of November, December 2019 – January 2020 (6.3%) the unemployment rate showed just a variation of 1 percentage point, which reveals that in five years, a stagnation is recorded and little or nothing has been made to reduce unemployment in the capital.
According to the INEI, more than 358,000 people sought a job in Lima.
Of the total of Unemployed population52% are women who reach 184,700 and 48% (173,000 400) are men.
Source: Larepublica
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