The number of unemployed varies between 12.8% and 4% in Uruguay, while informality ranges between 14.1% and 47.2%.
Unemployment in Peach reached 12.8% in the third quarter and the department was once again the one with the highest percentage of unemployed in the entire country, according to the report from the INE on the labor market by geographic area of residence.
They complete the podium Thirty-three (12.4%) and Artigas (11.9%), which thus exceeded the levels of unemployment that occur on the country’s coast, where the exchange difference between Uruguay and Argentina It impacts not only the level of sales, but also the sources of work.
In fact, the ranking continues with Leap, fourth with an unemployment rate of 11.8%, followed by Black river (11.3%), Tacuarembó (eleven%), Rocha (10.8%) and Paysandu (10.2%).
Then they appear cannelloni (8.4%), Soriano (7.7%), Rivera (7.6%), Montevideo (7.5%), Saint Joseph (7.4%), Long Hill (7.2%), Flowers (6.3%), Maldonado (6%), Lavalleja (5.8%), Florida (5.6%) and Cologne, with 4%.
Artigas and Cerro Largo, with the highest levels of informality
In the survey of INE The levels of non-registration to the social security of the departments were also reported and, in a context of growth of the employment, It was Artigas who had the greatest informality, with 47.2% of workers, closely followed by Cerro Largo, with 45.2%, and Rivera, with 40% of informal employees, all of them on the border with Brazil.
Outside the podium are Soriano, with 33.2% not registering with social security, Treinta y Tres (32.9%), Tacuarembó (30.1%), Salto (29.9%), Durazno (27. 1%), Río Negro (26.5%), Rocha (26.1%), Paysandú (25.8%) and Canelones (24.9%).
Among those that demonstrated the least informality are Florida (22.5%), San José (22.4%), Maldonado (22%), Lavalleja (21.9%), Colonia (19.2%), Flores (16. 5%) and Montevideo (14.1%).
Source: Ambito
