The food insecurity in Colombia was reduced in 2023 from 30% to 25%, according to the report presented this Tuesday by the World Food Program (WFP) of the UNwhich points out that there are still 13 million people in the South American country who are in moderate or severe food insecurity. This is a reduction […]
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It’s not Argentina: which country has the highest unemployment rate in Latin America?
After the pandemic, a large part of Latin American countries saw their economies affected. Many lost their jobs, some got another, but the consequences continue to affect various nations. For this reason, the International Labor Organization has published the report ‘Labor Overview of Latin America and the Caribbean’, which shows the ranking of the countries […]
Unemployment increases in Trujillo and affects women more
In the third quarter of 2023 the rate of unemployment In the province of Trujillo it was 5.6%, being 2 percentage points more than in the same period of 2022 (3.6%). Furthermore, according to sex, unemployment affected 3.5% of men and 7.8% of women, as revealed by the president of the Institute of Economics and […]
US GDP grows 2.1% and increases unemployment benefit applications
The American economy maintained a fairly strong pace of growth in the second quarter, the Government confirmed on Thursday, and appears to have gained momentum in the current quarter amid a working market resistant. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased at an unrevised annualized rate of 2.1% last quarter, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in […]
Russian unemployment rate hits new all-time low amid tense job market
He unemployment Russia reached a new all-time low in June and real wages rose 10.5% year-on-year, in a new test of the stickiness of the working marketaccording to data released Wednesday. The unemployment rate fell to 3.0% of the economically active population, compared to 3.1% of the previous month. Real wage growth was lower than […]
The number of formal jobs generated by Brazil fell by 27.7% until July
Brazil generated 1.16 million new jobs formal in the first seven months of 2023, a number 27.7% lower than that of the same period of 2022, the Ministry of Labor reported this Wednesday. Despite the reduction between January and July, the total number of formal jobs created by Brazil in the last twelve months until […]
Informality exceeds 70% in six cities
Of the 17 million 319,900 Peruvians who had a job between April 2022 and March of this year, 73.5% of people had an informal job; that is, without labor rights or social protection. While the remaining 26.5% declared having found a formal position, according to the latest INEI report on the behavior of the labor […]
Ecuadorians, without hope that presidential candidates stop unemployment and migration
The lack of employment in Ecuador is pushing increasing numbers of young professionals to emigrate, officials and families said, amid voter pessimism about improvements promised by the presidential candidates competing to win the end-of-month elections. Less than four out of 10 people that make up the economically active population had adequate employment in the second […]
Congress proposes creating Unemployment Insurance with employer contribution
Congresswoman Sigrid Bazán (Cambio Democrático-Juntos por el Perú) has proposed creating the Unemployment Insurance, in order to protect and promote decent work in the country, as well as the development of people in decent conditions. Its implementation would be progressive, initially considering the coverage of dependent workers in the private sector of medium and large […]
Trujillo: there is 10% unemployment in the youth population
The labor force in Trujillo has decreased and this is affecting young people between the ages of 14 and 24 more, where 10 out of 100 young people are unemployed, while 81% of these young people are in the informal sector. Francisco Huerta Benites dean of the College of Economists de La Libertad points out […]