Nationally, job losses were 0.8% between December and February. Only two jurisdictions in the country created jobs and another 14 were above average.
The economic recession deepens in Argentina and with it the destruction of both private and public employment. With the arrival of the libertarian liberal economist Javier Milei to the Government, between the months of December and February, it is estimated that 53,000 Job positions (-0.8%) in the private sector, according to the report Nadin Argañaraz, based on the data of the OEDE-Ministry of Labor.
In public employment the situation is not more auspicious, the president himself outlines that the Losses reach 70,000 positions as of May and will continue to adjustwhich is even observed as an achievement by the Executive itself.
X-ray of employment in the provinces
In a x-ray of what was province by province, only in two there was an increase in employment (Salta and Mendoza) while in the rest of the country employment fell sharply. Even, in 14 jurisdictions the drop was greater than the average.
The four jurisdictions with the greatest drop in employment were La Rioja (-4.9%), Misiones (-4.3%), Formosa (-4.2%) and Santiago del Estero (-3.8%). In these provinces, the brakes on the public workas well as the consumption drop. Yes ok The Rioja is the one that had the greatest percentage drop, in Missions the greatest destruction of jobs was recorded, generating a drop in 4,700 people.
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Meanwhile, of the large jurisdictions, Cordova It was where there was the smallest relative drop in employment until February. For its part, the Buenos aires city It was also well below the global average, ranging down 0.1%. Buenos Airesmeanwhile, was 0.4 percentage points from the average.
Source: Ambito
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