translated from Spanish: Unemployment reaches 8.8% in Gran Mendoza

The labour market report published by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) revealed figures that preocuously for the province. Mendoza went from 24,500 unemployed in the second quarter of 2018 to 42,000 unemployed in the same period this year. This means that, because of the crisis, 17,500 more people became unemployed. In particular, in Mendoza, there are more than 42,000 people who do not have a job. Higher than this was only recorded 15 years ago, during the third quarter of 2004 when the number of unemployed reached 10.8%. This percentage places Gran Mendoza in 17th place out of 32 urban conglomerates that the national statistics institute relieves, that is almost half at the national level. Mar del Plata leads 13.4%, while Resistencia and San Juan closed the list with 2% and 2.3%, respectively. Statistics also show poor quality work, i.e. underoccupation and demanding suboccupation. In this category are busy people who work less than 35 hours a week for unintentional causes and are willing to work more hours. Both suffered an increase of 3.6%, in the first case, and 1.8%, in the second. They were 16.6 per cent and 13.9 per cent, respectively. Nationally, unemployment rose to 10.6%, positioned above the provincial. In this note:

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