{"id":121914,"date":"2021-05-08T15:25:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T07:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121914"},"modified":"2021-05-08T15:25:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T07:25:42","slug":"covid-19-unemployment-in-uruguay-falls-below-10-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121914","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Unemployment in Uruguay falls below 10% in March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/81204\/0x0\/uy.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/81204\/760x480\/uy.jpg\" alt=\"Data for March this year is even better than the pre-pandemic figures of March 2020. \"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MONTEVIDEO, May 8 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) &#8212; Uruguay&#8217;s labour market showed some recovery as unemployment in March fell to 9.7% from February&#8217;s 11.1%, according to a report released by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data for March this year is even better than the pre-pandemic figures of March 2020 when unemployment was 10.1% as per INE&#8217;s assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Economist Aldo Lema explained in his Twitter account that in the year-on-year there were 67,000 fewer people jobless, partly due to a low comparison base, but the seasonally adjusted figures also showed a strong recovery during the first quarter versus the end of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the activity rate stood at 60.8% of the working-age population in April and fell by almost one point compared to the previous month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the employment rate of the Uruguayan economy stood at 54.9% of the working-age population, from 53.1% a year ago, when the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic were not yet evident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those within the active age range who nevertheless did not look for a job (some 71,000 people), 23.8% claimed it was to pursue their studies, 17.6% blamed the pandemic for it while 17.2% tried to find a job but could not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, these figures show an improvement in the economy compared to February 2021 when 20.4% of working Uruguayans were unable to find a job, although only 10.8% of them claimed to be jobless due to the pandemic, according to the INE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 14.8% of those employed worked from their homes, which represents 3.8 percentage points higher than the previous month. In addition, it was the highest percentage since May of last year (16.7%). &#8212; NNN-MERCOPRESS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTEVIDEO, May 8 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) &#8212; Uruguay&#8217;s labour market showed some recovery as unemployment in March fell to 9.7% from February&#8217;s 11.1%, according to a report released by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Data for March this year is even better than the pre-pandemic figures of March 2020 when unemployment was 10.1% as per INE&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121914"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}