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Two contrasting realities is what the labor market shows, strongly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile and the world.
On the one hand, there are the results of the latest survey by the Center for Longitudinal Studies of the Catholic University, which reveals that the proportion of employed people with respect to the working-age population was 44.3 percent in August, accounting for a brake on deterioration.
This translates into the creation of 312,000 jobs in the last month: 131,000 for men and 181,000 for women, the study authors pointed out.
On the other hand, the unemployment rate was 9.1 percent.
However, on a negative note, the UC Center for Longitudinal Studies survey picks up that at least 2.1 million jobs were lost in the country in the past 12 months.
The other side of the coin
The other side of the coin shows a completely different reality. According to a study commissioned by the National Confederation of Commercial Workers (Conatracops), 400 thousand people in the sector have been laid off as a result of the pandemic and another 200 thousand have suspended contracts.
The survey shows 1.5 million jobs lost and another 800 thousand suspended so far in 2020. “Globally, these figures are compounded by adding 1,600,000 informal and self-employed workers who have lost or significantly reduced their income levels, “Conatracops said.
From the Confederation they considered that these results are the consequence of a “hesitant health strategy and the erratic and late economic measures of the Government that have already lasted 7 months of the crisis.”
“In the commerce sector, in particular, the data on company closings, lower collections, reinstatement of workers and expectations of recovery show extremely critical levels,” he added.
“The challenges for the sector are the recovery of economic activity, employment, the return to safe work of workers and clients, the regulation of teleworking and digital sales, which tend to make working conditions precarious,” concludes the investigation.
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