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Between April-June 2018, in Bucaramanga and its surrounding metropolitan area there were 56,000 unemployed, 8,000 more than in the same quarter 2017; but a thousand less than in May of this year.
According to the labor market report of the National Administrative Department of Statistics, Dane, in the badyzed period, the unemployment rate in Bucaramanga and its metropolitan area was 9.3%, which means an increase of 1, 7 percentage point, pps, compared to the same quarter of 2017, where it was 7.6%; However, it recorded a slight decrease of 0.1 pps compared to the previous period of 2018. The employment rate was 60.3%.
During this period, there were 8,000 more unemployed in the city compared to the same period of 2017.
Trade, hotels and restaurants, with 16 thousand, and Services, communal, social and personal, with 12 thousand, were the branches "The increase in the unemployment rate in Bucaramanga was largely favored by the increase in informal recruitment, which according to Dane statistics reached 56.2% of the population. due to various situations such as smuggling, the mbadive arrival of emigrants and the decrease of new construction licenses, "said Alejandro Almeyda Camargo, executive director of Fenalco Santander.
Cartagena (7.4%), Barranquilla AM (7.8%) and Santa Marta (7.8%) are the cities with the lowest unemployment rates; Quibdó (17.1%), Armenia (16.4%) and Valledupar (14.9%) were the highest.
Meanwhile, during the quarter from April to June, the unemployment rate in the 23 cities badyzed was 10.8%.
For Almeyda Camargo, due to the fact that the law on guarantees has been finalized, hiring for the second half of 2018, which will decrease unemployment.
More unemployment in the country
According to the Dane Report, during the quarter from April to June 2018, the unemployment rate for the national total was 9.4%, 0.4 pps compared to the quarter from April to June 2017, there was a slight decline of 0.1 pps, while it was 9, 5% By contrast, in June, the unemployment rate was of 9.1%, which is a 0.4 percentage point increase compared to the sixth month of 2017. During this month, there were 2 million 262,000 unemployed.
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