Colombia tries to recover loss of formal jobs with informal labor

As Colombia’s formal economy is struggling to recover from the coronavirus, many are resorting to informal labor after losing their formal jobs. According to statistics agency DANE, the country’s 2020 unemployment rate ended at 15.9%, 5.4 percentage points higher than the year before. Some 11% of Colombia’s workers lost their job in 2020, according to … Continue reading Colombia tries to recover loss of formal jobs with informal labor