Tag: Argentine unemployment

• Wednesday, May 1st 2019 - 03:10 UTC

  Tens of thousands demonstrated in partial strike in Argentina; unions divided as to how face Marci’s austerity measures

  

  Tens of thousands of Argentines demonstrated on Tuesday in a partial strike that grounded airplanes and shut banks and other businesses to protest the economic policies of President Mauricio Macri.

• Friday, March 17th 2017 - 21:55 UTC

  Unemployment in Argentina falls to 7.6%: less people looking for jobs

  

  Argentina's unemployment rate fell to 7.6% in the fourth quarter of 2016, the government's Indec statistics agency said in a report on Thursday, down from 8.5% in the third quarter as thousands of people stopped looking for work.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2016 - 07:25 UTC

  Argentina unemployment in second quarter, 9.3%; first official data since Macri took office

  

  Argentina had 9.3% unemployment in the second quarter of the year, the government's Indec statistics agency said in a report on Tuesday. It was the first official unemployment data to be published by Argentina since Mauricio Macri became president in December.

• Monday, May 9th 2016 - 07:33 UTC

  Massive protest in Comodoro Rivadavia against the oil industry weak activity

  

  More than 50,000 workers blocked the centre of Comodoro Rivadavia, in Argentina's Patagonia main oil-producing region in a protest against layoffs. Striking oil workers were joined by teachers, truck drivers, builders and other sectors in the demonstration.

• Monday, May 9th 2016 - 07:14 UTC

  Jobs, layoffs and severance payment at the heart of Argentina's public debate

  

  Unemployment and jobs are in the heart of public debate in Argentina. A public opinion poll released last week revealed that 48.3% of Argentines fear he/she or a relative might lose their jobs in the next six months.

• Friday, May 6th 2016 - 06:38 UTC

  Bad news for Macri: Moody's forecasts Argentine economy will shrink 1.5%

  

  Despite the Argentine government’s forecast of a much better economic scenario in the second half of the year, credit rating agency Moody’s disagrees, saying the economy is set to shrink by 1.5%, followed by a growing unemployment and an inflation rate well above 30%.

• Saturday, April 30th 2016 - 12:12 UTC

  Argentine unions take to the streets to protest job cuts and inflation

  

  Argentina’s strongest unions brought thousands of people into the streets Friday to protest high inflation and job cuts in the biggest demonstrations against President Mauricio Macri since he took office in December. Demonstrators waving blue and white Argentine flags flooded the main avenues of Buenos Aires, blocking traffic in a protest that brought together rival unions that put aside differences to protest Macri’s policies.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2015 - 03:52 UTC

  Unemployment in Argentina stable at 7.1%, but jobless have stopped looking for work, said Indec

  

  Argentina's Indec stats office latest release shows that unemployment was stable in the first quarter, at 7.1% in the yearly comparison, but that is only because some of the jobless have stopped looking for work, as employment rates continued a declining trend which started in 2011.

• Monday, October 13th 2014 - 07:17 UTC

  Argentina doesn't need international credit, “we have foreign currency to face debt maturities”

  

  Argentine Economy Minister Axel Kicillof has assured that the government of president Cristina Fernandez is not seeking international financing despite current economic problems, since it has foreign trade surpluses and all the foreign exchange needed to face debt maturities.

• Thursday, August 1st 2013 - 04:04 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez says unemployment is down to 7.2% but calls for more job creation

  

  Argentina's unemployment rate fell to 7.2% in the second quarter of 2013 compared with 7.9% in the first quarter of the year, President Cristina Fernandez announced during a speech praising her government’s industrialization and added-value policies.