Tag: Unemployment

• 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%).

• Wednesday, October 26th 2022 - 19:30 UTC

  Over a quarter of a million new jobs created in Brazil

  

  According to a report from Brazilian economic authorities released Wednesday, South America's largest country generated around 278,000 new formal jobs in September this year.

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 19:05 UTC

  Unemployment keeps falling in Brazil as elections loom over

  

  Unemployment in South America's largest country has dropped to 8.9% in the quarter ending in August, following a 0.9 decrease that month, according to a study published Friday by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

• Tuesday, September 13th 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  UK unemployment in Q2 at its lowest level since 1974: 3,6%

  

  United Kingdom unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since 1974 in the three months to July, latest official figures show. The jobless rate fell to 3.6% over the period, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).