4.06% of the economically active population is unemployed, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE).
Thursday, November 10, 2011
The number of people who are unemployed showed an increase of 27 000, raising the unemployment rate from 3.52% last year to 4.06% this year.
This was revealed in the National Survey of Employment and Income, which was recently released by Guatemala’s National Statistics Institute.
The number of people who do not have a job is higher in the metropolitan area, where unemployment this year amounted to 39 000 people, while other urban areas combined increased by 44 000.
On the other hand, one of the main problems facing the population is informal employment, which has grown significantly in recent months.
An article on Prensalibre.com reads: "The underemployed population – that is those who are working fewer hours than they would like, or more hours but earning a lower wage than they are qualified for - was 3 million 336 thousand, which means 57.16%, as compared with 2010 in which the underemployed population was 59.55%.
"We believe it was the political campaign that influenced the labor market, because the parties were offering people work," explained Abel Cruz, Deputy Minister of Economy."
During the mobile quarter from September to November 2020, the unemployment rate at the national level stood at 21.3%, which is lower than the 21.9% reported from August to October of the same year.
For the mobile quarter September, October and November 2020, the population of 15 years of age and older with an incidence of labor due to the effect of Covid-19 was 1.07 million people (26.7%), according to an official report.
From April to June of this year, the unemployment rate stood at 11.9%, higher than the 11.3% reported in the first quarter of 2019.
For the second quarter of 2019, there was a significant increase in the net labor participation rate of 63%, with a 2.1 pp. increase over the same period of the previous year.
The unemployment rate at the end of December 2014 increased to 9.7%, almost one and a half percent more than the 8.3% seen in the same month of 2013.
From a statement issued by the National Institute of Statistics and Census in Costa Rica (INEC):
The net participation rate for men and women was 75.4% and 48.5% respectively; while for men the same share has been maintained, in the case of women it decreased by 2.3 percentage points (pp), both in a year on year basis, which is attributed to the fall in the employment rate.
The unemployment rate in Panama dropped to 4%, the lowest since numeral statistics have been kept, for over 40 years.
According to a Labor Market Survey conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC), the unemployment rate for August 2012 dropped to 4%, down 0.5% from the previous year when the rate of unemployed people was 4.5%.