Tag: Unemployment

• Friday, September 1st 2023 - 10:02 UTC

  Unemployment reaches lowest figures since 2015 in Brazil

  

  According to a report from Brazil's statistics bureau (IBGE) released Thursday, unemployment in South America's largest country stood at 7.9% (around 8.5 million people) in the second quarter of 2023, the lowest number since 2015 and a 0.6% decrease from the quarter ending in April.

• Wednesday, August 16th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  Beijing finds solution to youth unemployment: it stopped publishing key figures

  

  China's agency official statistics agency said on Tuesday that it had stopped publishing key unemployment figures that had previously shown the number of jobless youth in the country had reached a record high.

• Tuesday, July 18th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  Growing concern in China over urban areas youth (16 to 24 years) unemployment

  

  The jobless rate of 16 to 24 year olds in Chinese urban areas rose to 21.3% last month, official figures released by Beijing show. It comes as the world's second largest economy grew just 0.8% in the three months to the end of June.

• Monday, July 17th 2023 - 11:05 UTC

  Micro and small businesses behind 69% of jobs in Brazil

  

  According to a study conducted by the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae), micro and small businesses have been behind the creation of seven out of ten formal jobs nationwide, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Friday, May 12th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  Despite fears of recession and bank failures, US economy manages 4,9% inflation and unemployment stands at 3,4%

  

  Inflation in the US has fallen to 4,9%, in the twelve months to April, according to official figures. That was down from 5% in March and marks the tenth month in a row that price rises have slowed.

• Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 - 10:05 UTC

  Fernández: Argentina has achieved the “lowest unemployment in decades”

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday released a recorded Labor Day message in which he praised his administration for achieving “the lowest unemployment in decades.” There are also “many provinces having full employment,” he added.

• Friday, March 24th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentina's 2022 GDP shows improvement from previous year

  

  Argentina's Gross Domestic Product (GDP - the sum of all products and services traded) grew by 5.2% in 2022, a 1.9% improvement from 2021, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) reported Thursday in a study that also showed that last year's fourth quarter GDP was 1.9% higher than that of the same period of 2021, but 1.5% below the third quarter of 2022.

• Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 10:12 UTC

  Indec reports Argentina's unemployment in 3Q at 7.1%

  

  Unemployment in Argentina in the third quarter of 2022 was 7.1%, according to a National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) report released Wednesday.

• Wednesday, November 30th 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  No significant changes in Chile's unemployment rate

  

  Unemployment in Chile stood at 8.0 % in the August-October 2022 mobile quarter, according to a report from the National Statistics Institute (INE) released Tuesday, which represented no substantial changes from the previous three months.

• Thursday, November 17th 2022 - 19:09 UTC

  Unemployment drops in Brazil

  

  According to the Quarterly Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) released Thursday by Brazil's Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the unemployment rate in the third quarter of this year went down from 9.3% to 8.7% overall from the previous quarter, thanks to drops in six states: Paraná (-0.8 %), Minas Gerais (-0.9 %), Maranhão (-1.1%), Acre (-1.8%), Ceará (-1.8%) and Rondônia (-1.9%).