After Minister of deregulation and Transformation of the State, Federico Sturzenegger, defend the Department of 50,000 public employees and ensure that, thanks to fiscal cuts, new jobs were created, the Encuentro Foundation He published a report in which the official’s version reproys and states that there are currently 1.1 million Unemployed, 300 thousand more than in December 2023. The disaggregated by Gender, item and region.
Last week, Sturzenegger visited the studies of Ln+ and provided an interview with the La Cornisa program, which drives Luis Majul, where he highlighted the economic policy of the government of Javier Milei and defended the adjustment in the state that implied the dismissal of thousands of state workers of various organisms. As he said, they were “ñoquis” that did not fulfill functions.
In addition, he assured that thanks to the state the state saved millions of dollars, which allowed “Create new jobs” in the private sphere. “We returned millions of dollars to the Argentines, which today we do not have to charge them to pay those 50,000 employees,” he explained. However, the driver interrupted him to ask him “Where are” the new positionssomething that Sturzenegger He could not explain.
The report of the Foundation on unemployment that contradicts Federico Sturzenegger
Days later, the Encuentro Foundation published a survey on the labor market in Answer to the Minister. “In a television interview, Federico Sturzenegger tried to evade the question about the more than 50 thousand layoffsappealing to an alleged growth of private employment. But Reality contradicts it, “they said.
According to the analysis of the organization’s work team, the labor market data of the first quarter of 2025 shows “the effects of the economic collapse” that the country crossed during 2024, after the strong devaluation, the recession and the fall of consumption. The impact translated into a reduction in active workforce. “In March, 1.1 million unoccupied people were registered.they explained.
The disaggregated report shows that half of the unemployed are young, while one in four are women under 30. “The unemployment in Young women reached 19.2%, the highest value since the 2nd quarter of 2021“, they reported and pointed out that the increase in unemployment is explained” by the increase in the rate of women, who in 2023 recorded the lowest levels of unemployment in history. “
Unemployment in Argentina by gender, item and region
In the case of Young women, The number of unemployed rose from 211 thousand to 297 thousand between December 2023 and March 2025. It’s about 86 thousand more. While among the Young men unemployed increased in almost 70,000: 230 thousand to 298 thousand went. “The total number of unemployed young people rose around 438 thousand to almost 600 thousand, which represents an increase of 35.7%,” the report indicates.
When analyzing the impact on the heads and heads of household, it follows that in the first quarter of 2024 it jumped to 32.5%, but currently decreased to 26.8%. In any case, although it is located above the levels of 2023, when the figure was around 23.3%, it reflects the same level of the first quarter of the last year of the front of all: 26.8%.
As for the sectors with the highest proportion of unemployment, the data indicates that there is a marked concentration in construction, (18.2 %), trade (15.6 %) and domestic service (14.6 %). “Together, these sectors gather approximately half of the cases of unemployment, which shows their particular vulnerability to labor market variations,” they say.
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Encounter Foundation based on Eph.
While the remaining 51.6% come from “Manufacturing industry” (7.3%), “Primary activities”, “Hotels and restaurants”, “Transportation, storage and communications”, “Financial, rental and business services”, “Public Administration, Defense and Social Security”, “Teaching”, “Social and Health and Health Services”, “Other Community, Social and Personal Services” and “Other Branches”.
The report also reveals differences in the unemployment rate according to urban agglomerates and geographical location, with higher figures in the most populated areas (8.5%) compared to those that record less density (5%). Greater Buenos Aires recorded the highest level of unemployment (9.1 %), widely above the figures in the Patagonian region (4.9) and the northwest (5.1 %). “These data show a greater incidence of unemployment in urban centers with the greatest population density, as well as territorial heterogeneity in labor market dynamics,” they said.
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Encounter Foundation based on Eph.
The analysis also refers to the containment networks that in recent times allowed to “compensate” the effects of unemployment, such as self -employment, changas, precarious works through platforms and even the sums provided by other household members. “That informal network worked as a social shock absorber in the face of the fall in employment,” they said from the Encuentro Foundation, something that happens “commonly” in peripheral economies with high informality where the person cannot afford to be without receiving income. However, they warn that containment, which worked until recent times, in the first quarter of 2025 “He started saturating.”
Changes in the labor market also reflect a change of time. It is not one “Transitional crisis”but there is “weakening of the strategies that previously contained labor exclusion”, which implies a passage to a “crude” phase where there is a “sustained advance of open, long -lasting and greater family impact unemployment.”
Source: Ambito
