Labor and unemployment
Colombia has traditionally had of the highest unemployment rates in the hemisphere, which has worsened over the past few years.
Colombia has traditionally had of the highest unemployment rates in the hemisphere, which has worsened over the past few years.
Unemployment in Colombia dropped to its lowest lowest since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, statistics agency DANE announced Wednesday. According to DANE, the national unemployment rate was 12.3% in…
The economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic destroyed almost 9% of Colombia’s small businesses, according to a government poll. Statistics agency DANE said Wednesday that its annual small business…
Colombia’s government is destroying the future of the country’s children, teenagers and young adults as it is bungling its economic reactivation plans. While many people somehow recovered employment after the…
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…
Colombia’s finance minister proposed to temporarily allow employers to hire workers for 80% of the country’s $250 monthly minimum wage, claiming this would boost economic recovery. Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla…
Unemployment in Colombia is recovering only slightly from the historic economic collapse between March and April when the COVID-19 pandemic left 5 million people without a job, according to statistics…
Colombia’s unemployment rose to 21.4% in May, despite efforts to reactivate the economy that was all but shut down in March in response to the coronavirus pandemic, statistics agency DANE…
The coronavirus pandemic triggered Colombia’s unemployment rate to skyrocket to 19.8% in April, a rate not measured since one of the country’s worst crises in history in 2000. April’s rate…