The drop in unemployment in those urban agglomerates that register full employment in the country and in those that are on the way to reaching it responded to the growth of very diverse activities, ranging from industry and commerce to construction, including fishing, tourism, computing, logistics, gastronomy and public administration.
There are eight urban agglomerations that register full employment in the country, distributed in nine provinces, while another five are on the way to reaching it, according to the report Labor market-Rates and socioeconomic indicators, published by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec), corresponding to the third quarter of last year.
An unemployment rate of 4% can be considered what is technically called full employment.
The urban agglomerates that in the country register full employment are eight, distributed in nine provinces, while another five are on the way to reaching it.
Full employment is never equivalent to zero unemployment in an economy because it is taken into account that there are people who may be temporarily changing jobs, or do not want to work to dedicate themselves to other tasks or studies.
According to the latest INDEC survey, which reported unemployment of 7.1% at the country level, agglomerates that have already reached full employment They are Gran Resistencia, in Chaco, with an unemployment rate of 4%; Posadas, in Misiones, with 3.4%; Greater San Juan, in the homonymous province, with 3%; Formosa, with 2.8%; Greater San Luis, with 2.4%; Santiago del Estero-La Banda, with 1.6%; Comodoro Rivadavia-Rada Tilly, in Chubut, with 1.4%; and Viedma-Carmen de Patagones, in Río Negro and Buenos Aires, with 0.9%.
Besides, there are other agglomerates with figures close to full employment: Ushuaia-Río Grande, in Tierra del Fuego, with an unemployment rate of 5%; Neuquén-Plottier and Rawson-Trelew, the latter in Chubut, both with 4.7%; Gran Paraná, in Entre Ríos, with 4.6%; and La Rioja, with 4.4%.
One by one
The activities that contributed the most to the generation of employment in the agglomerate Viedma – Carmen de Patagonesthe one with the lowest unemployment in the country, were construction, public administration, transportation, hotels and restaurants, domestic service, information technology and agriculture, according to what they consigned to Télam from the Buenos Aires Ministry of Production.
These same activities are the ones that predominate in job creation in Greater San Luis and Greater San Juan.
In the second agglomerate with the lowest unemployment, Comodoro Rivadavia-Rada Tillyconstruction, both public and private, registered an increase of around 5% between last year and the present.
In addition, Comodoro is the head of the oil region of the Golfo San Jorge, and maintained a sustained level of employment thanks to service companies, the Chubut Ministry of Production told this agency.
Then comes Santiago del Estero-La Bandawhere the sectors that grew the most were construction with 26.4%, followed by accommodation and food services, with 24.5%, as indicated to Télam by the General Directorate of Statistics and Provincial Censuses,
Also noteworthy is the growth of public administration, defense and compulsory social security with 8.5%, in addition to the manufacturing industry with 8.2% and agriculture, livestock, hunting, forestry and fishing, 6.2%.
In the case of Formosaitems such as hotels and restaurants (+20.4% year-on-year) and construction (+14.1%) once again positioned themselves as those with the highest employment growth, and the economic activities that registered the most salaried jobs were those related to commerce (6,926 workers) and construction (6,356), specified the provincial government.
Another city with full employment is innswhere the sectors with the highest job creation are food processing (tea, yerba) and wood products, tobacco and leather and footwear, generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy, water supply, building construction and parts, wholesale trade and transport and storage services.
Finally, great resistance shows the prevalence of commerce, mainly vehicle sales and repair, courier and postal services, financial intermediation, audiovisuals, radio and TV programming and transmission, communications, programming, computer consulting, and health services.
The next to full employment
Among the agglomerates that are close to full employment, in Neuquén-Plottier The construction boom that has been registered for some years in 2022 had enormous importance in the creation of jobs.
Meanwhile in Rawson-Trelewthe activity that most boosted the generation of employment was fishing, thanks to the excellent shrimp catching season that is close to 70,000 tons landed on the local port shoulder with a month to go before the end of the harvest.
Rawson’s production secretary, Eduardo Varela, considered that between one season and another, more than 500 jobs increased.
“During the harvest, the direct jobs in the fishing plants went from 1,600 to 1,800, which in turn multiplies in stowage with about 600; on-board personnel and shipowners, also 600; no less than 120 in transportation and 200 in other services such as net workers, mechanics, electricians and suppliers,” explained Varela.
