About, Andrea Ávila, CEO of Randstad, stated that “the results of the survey show that, as the economy improves, the proportion of candidates in active search who have been unemployed for a longer time is decreasing”. The specialist added that such a phenomenon is “the product of a more active labor demand by more and more industries and vertical markets that are reactivating their searches after a long period in which caution prevailed.”
According to the latest data from the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC), based on the Permanent Household Survey (EPH) that was published last December with information from the third quarter of 2021, people who were actively looking for between three and six months were 15.2%, and those who had been between six months and a year reached 13.1%. The official report indicates that between July and September of last year, unemployed people with more than a year of searching were the highest proportion with 43.6%.
Nuria Susmel, economist at the Latin American Economic Research Foundation (FAITHFUL) explained, in dialogue with Ambit, that “when one sees situations of unemployment for more than a year it is worrying”, given that it could be a structural phenomenon that is difficult to resolve. Instead, when it comes to periods of one to three months, he considered that “it does not seem worrying”, since it would be a normal turnover phenomenon in the labor market. Susmel stated that “there are always people entering and leaving the market, some who quit one job to go to another, others who lost their jobs and re-enter.”
Another phenomenon that is taking place in the labor market, as anticipated by the private report, is the increase in the number of people who, despite having a job, are looking for another, something that could be related to the drop in the purchasing power of salaries, combined with the possibility that telecommuting offers employees to cover more tasks from home.
“While in January 2019 the proportion of unemployed among the candidates in active search was six out of ten, at the beginning of 2022 the gap narrows and the proportion of candidates in active search, with and without work, is distributed in equal parts, consolidating a trend of a greater proportion of people who currently have a job, are actively looking for a job change”, indicates the Randstat report.
In this regard, Susmel considered that they may be cases of people who after the great crisis of 2020 were left unemployed and who “have agreed to work whatever it takes to survive.” “Now they see that the market is recovering and they want to relocate better,” she added.
For example, it is possible that those who became unemployed in 2020 have found a job again, but informally or as an independent, appearing as monotributistas. That could be driving them to get a formal job, without leaving the one they have. In this sense, Ávila explained that “after a long period of economic and employment retraction, we are today facing a situation in which the 10% GDP growth in 2021 and the prospects for this year allow us to foresee a reactivation of labor demand. “This context of incipient optimism affects the attitudes of workers, giving them confidence in the labor market and encouraging them to search for new job opportunities,” he said.
Source: Ambito
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