Tag: Unemployment

• Tuesday, January 26th 2021 - 09:27 UTC

  ILO: Pandemic in 2020 has caused massive loss of working hours, equivalent to 255 million full time jobs

  

  Tentative signs of recovery are emerging in global labor markets, following unprecedented disruption in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the latest report from the International Labour Organization, ILO.

• Tuesday, January 5th 2021 - 09:42 UTC

  Chile's unemployment eases to 10,8% but still several points above 2019

  

  Chile's unemployment rate eased to 10.8% between September and November, the government said in the last day of 2020, but remained well above the same period the previous year as the coronavirus pandemic continued to weigh on the economy of the world's top copper producer.

• Wednesday, December 30th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Employment situation in Brazil improving: two million find jobs

  

  Brazil’s unemployment rate fell unexpectedly to 14.3% in the three months through October, official figures showed on Tuesday, the first decline this year as the number of people with jobs rose by almost 2 million from the prior three months.

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:06 UTC

  Trump finally signs into law a US$ 2,3 trillion pandemic and spending package; stimulus checks of US$ 2,000

  

  US President Donald Trump on Sunday signed into law a US$2.3 trillion pandemic aid and spending package, restoring unemployment benefits to millions of Americans and averting a federal government shutdown in a crisis of his own making.

• Friday, December 18th 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  Unemployment in Argentina during the third quarter remains at two digits

  

  The unemployment rate in Argentina fell in the third quarter from the previous three months as an economic activity seems to be tepidly recovering. The rate fell to 11,7% at the end of September compared to 13,1% in the second quarter, according to the country's stats office, Indec.

• Monday, December 7th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  US jobs picked up in November, but the challenge remains long term employment

  

  U.S. employers added 245,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate slipped to 6.7%, the Department of Labor said on Friday. The fresh economic data shows the labor market clawing its way out of the pandemic-induced downturn, but still far away from a full recovery. The unemployment rate in the U.S. was 3.5% in February before the crisis hit.

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Record unemployment in Brazil, 14,4% and underemployment, 30,3%

  

  The number of registered Brazilians out of work and the national unemployment rate rose to the highest on record, official figures showed on Friday, as the easing of COVID-19 lockdown measures encouraged people to look for work again.

• Friday, October 30th 2020 - 18:09 UTC

  US economy grew 33,1% in Q3 on trillions of relief, but 23 million Americans still on unemployment benefit

  

  The U.S. economy grew at a historic pace in the third quarter as the government injected more than US$ 3 trillion worth of pandemic relief which fueled consumer spending, but the deep scars from the COVID-19 recession could take a year or more to heal.

• Wednesday, October 21st 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Robots will replace 85 million jobs in next five years, but 97 million will be created in tech industries, WEF study

  

  Robots will destroy 85 million jobs at mid-sized to large businesses over the next five years as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates changes in the workplace likely to exaggerate inequalities, a World Economic Forum (WEF) study has found.

• Friday, October 16th 2020 - 09:31 UTC

  UN agency advises Latin American to stimulate economies and help contain poverty and unemployment

  

  Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean must continue to ratchet up stimulus to beat back the devastating economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, the UN agency ECLAC said in a report issued this week.