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THE Pandemic unemployment broke a record in the penultimate week of September, reaching more than 14 million Brazilians.. This is what the data published on Friday (16) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) indicates.
According to the survey, between May and September, more than 4.1 million Brazilians joined the unemployment line, which corresponds to an increase of 43% of the number of unemployed in the country in five months.
With that, the unemployment rate went from 10.5% to 14.4%, the highest in the entire period investigated.
Research has also shown that:
- Among the regions, the Northeast had the largest increase in the number of unemployed, 69%
- The southeast, the most populated region, concentrates around 45% of the country’s unemployed
- The employed population remained stable for most of the surveyed period
- The level of occupation also remained stable during the pandemic
- Relief from social isolation was responsible for putting pressure on the labor market
- Informality fell in the country, indicating a stagnation in the labor market
- The number of workers dismissed for social isolation fell by 83.9% in 5 months.
Between May and September, the number of unemployed in Brazil increased by around 4 million, says IBGE – Photo: Economia / G1
The survey was conducted between September 20 and 26 through Pnad Covid19, version of the Continuous National Survey by Household Sample carried out with the support of the Ministry of Health to identify the impacts of the pandemic on the labor market and quantify people with symptoms associated with influenza syndrome in Brazil. This was the last edition of the weekly survey.
Although it also evaluates the labor market, the Pnad Covid19 is not comparable with the data of the Pnad Continuous, which is used as official indicator of unemployment in the country, due to the methodological characteristics, which are different.
The most current data from Pnad Continua correspond to July, when the country reached a record unemployment rate of 13.8%, with more than 13.1 million Brazilians looking for an opportunity in the labor market.
The Northeast had the largest rise in unemployment among regions
Most of the 14 million unemployed in the penultimate week of September were concentrated in the Southeast Region (6.3 million), which is the most populated in the country.
However, It was in the Northeast Region where the greatest increase in the number of unemployed was observed during the five months of the pandemic – went from 2.3 million in the first week of May to 3.9 million in the penultimate week of September, which corresponds to an increase of 69% in the period.
The second highest increase was observed in the North Region, where the number of unemployed went from 890 thousand to 1.3 million – an increase of 46.9%.
The Southeast, for its part, registered an increase of 39.2% in the number of unemployed, from 4.3 million to 6.3 million.
No Center-West, the region with the lowest number of unemployed, the number of job seekers increased from 819 thousand to 1 million, corresponding to an increase of 25%.
I and Southern region saw the contingent of unemployed go from 1.3 million to 1.5 million, a high of 16.5%.
Isolated flexibility puts pressure on unemployment
Compared to the third week of September, the number of unemployed increased by around 700 thousand, causing the unemployment rate to go from 13.7% to 14.4% in one week. This increase, however, is considered a statistical stability by the IBGE.
The research director, Maria Lúcia Vieira, assessed that progress in alleviating social isolation throughout Brazil is directly related to rising unemployment throughout the survey period.
“Although the unemployment information has remained stable in the weekly comparison, it suggests that more people are putting pressure on the market in search of work, amid the relaxation of social distancing measures and the resumption of economic activity,” he said. .
The researcher highlighted that the population employed in the labor market remained stable during most of the survey, which suggests that unemployment was pressured by a greater number of job seekers, that is, there were no significant job cuts in the country.
“We have seen positive variations, although not significant, in the last four weeks of the employed population. In the fourth week of September the variation was negative, but with no effect on the unemployment rate, ”said Maria Lúcia.
In the penultimate week of September, the employed population was estimated at about 83 million people. In the first week of May, that contingent was around 83.9 million. The lowest contingent of employed persons had been registered in the first week of July, with 81.1 million active workers in the market.
THE The occupancy level was 48.7% in the last week of the survey, stable compared to that registered in the first week of May., which was 49.4%.
further the number of people who were neither working nor looking for work in the country remained stable – there were about 73.4 million people in the penultimate week of September against 76.2 million on the first of May.
IBGE noted, however, that the number of people outside the workforce who said they would like to work fell from 27.1 million in the first week of the survey to 25.6 million, although they did not seek employment.
The survey showed that the number of informal workers fell by approximately 1.6 million between the start and end of the survey. In the first week of May, the country had about 30 million people working informally, a figure that fell to 28.4 million in the penultimate week of September.
With that, the informality rate in the country fell from 35.7% to 34.2% no period.
IBGE considers as informal workers those professionals without a labor contract (private sector employees and domestic workers), without CNPJ (employers and self-employed) and without remuneration.
The body emphasizes that Informality is the easiest way to access the labor market and, therefore, it is usually the first means of employment to react to a crisis. as established by the coronavirus pandemic. That is, the evolution of informality throughout the pandemic indicates that there is some stagnation in the labor market no country.
Leave from work was reduced by 83.4%
From the beginning of the survey, the number of workers out of work due to social distancing decreased weekly.
In the first week of May, there were 16.6 million people in this condition, a figure that reached 2.7 million in the penultimate week of September. a drop of 83.4% in the period.
In five months, the number of workers dismissed for social isolation fell by around 83% – Photo: Economia / G1
This fall, according to IBGE, is directly related to the gradual advance of the flexibility of social distancing measures to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.
IBGE pointed out that, only between the third and fourth week of September, the number of people claiming to maintain strict social isolation decreased by 2.2 million. In the same period, the number of people who said they had not taken any restrictive measures to avoid contagion increased by around 937 thousand for the new coronavirus.
Most of the population stated, in the penultimate week of September, to have reduced contact with other people, but continued to leave the house or receive visitors.
