News of joblessness

INDEC: Unemployment dropped to 7% in fourth quarter of 2021

24-03-2022 15:54 National statistics bureau reports lowest joblessness rate since 2016 and highest employment rate in five years.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Argentina's unemployment rate fell to 8.2% in third quarter

21-12-2021 18:43 Year-on-year unemployment in Argentina fell by 3.5 percentage points in the third quarter of 2021 to 8.2 percent, according to official data.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Unemployment dropped to 9.6% in second quarter

24-09-2021 02:27 Among men, unemployment affected nine percent of the economically active population in the second quarter, with the figure rising to 10.4 percent for women.

BRAZILIAN ECONOMY

Brazil registers record 14.4 million unemployed

30-04-2021 15:53 Pandemic-battered Brazil registered a record 14.4 million unemployed workers in the three-month period to February 2021, up two million from the year before, officials said Friday.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Unemployment rose to 11% in the fourth quarter of 2020

25-03-2021 18:24 Argentina's unemployment rate rose to 11 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020, rising 2.1 percentage points from a year earlier.

Global pandemic

Pandemic drives Brazil jobless rate to record 14.4%

30-10-2020 14:15 Brazil's economy lost 4.3 million jobs between July and August, bringing the total number of unemployed to 13.8 million people, the government said.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Unemployment in Argentina rises to 16-year high of 13.1%

23-09-2020 19:37 Joblessness rose to 13.1% in the second quarter of the year, INDEC reveals, revealed Wednesday, pushed higher by economic turmoil and the coronavirus pandemic.