After several months of leading the unemployment ranking of the Uruguay, the departments of coast – still hit by the exchange difference with Argentina – managing to reduce their indices, among them are Salto, Paysandú, Rio Negro and Artigas.
He National Statistics Institute (INE) published its unemployment rates for the mobile quarter of May and July of this year, among which the coastal departments that managed to lower their unemployment rates after several months.
The border department that obtained the greatest decrease in indices was Black river which went from having an unemployment rate of 14.8% to 13.4%, dropping a total of 1.4 percentage points. Meanwhile, the Activity rate it rose 0.1% reaching a total of 66.5%, while the employment rate rose 1% reaching 56.6%.
For his part, paysandu He also received good news regarding unemployment, since he managed to reduce it by 0.4% compared to the moving quarter of April and June, reaching a total of 11.3%. Meanwhile, in the activity rate it achieved a rise of 0.1% obtaining 60.5%, while the employment rate was 53.7%.
Salto, on the other hand, lowered the unemployment rate by 0.5% compared to 13.3% last quarter with a current 12.8%. Meanwhile, the activity rate reached 64.7%, while the employment rate reached 56.4%. For his part, Artigas, its unemployment rate decreased by 0.8%, with a total of 11.3% and an activity rate of 60.4%, accompanied by an employment rate of 53.6%.
Cerro Lago, Rivera and Artigas with the highest rate of unregistered employment
He percentage of unregistered employed workers It worries some departments that reach almost 40% of the total number of people who work in Uruguay. The most committed departments are Artigas, Cerro Lago and Rivera with percentages of 39.1%, 39.9% and 39.5%, respectively.
Meanwhile, the departments with the highest number of workers are Montevideo, with 14.1% of unregistered workers, in second place is lavalleja with 16.5%. While third place is occupied by Cologne with 17.9% and the fourth Flowers with 19.5%.
Source: Ambito
