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Unemployment in Colombia

By JuanPBarrera
  • Unemployment for citys

    Unemployment for citys

    In the 70´ Cali shows stable behavior with the other cities like Bogotá and Medellin, as we can see in the graph. However, I think here we have to considered the in the past specific in that epoch the age to work it used to start at 12
  • Law 100

    Law 100

    The reforms of Law 100 produced an increase of close to 10 percentage points in the
    health and pension contributions for both employees and employers that used to be made before
  • Higher unemployment in Colombia in the last 10 years

    Higher unemployment in Colombia in the last 10 years

    At the end of the first semester of 1997, the unemployment rate in Cali reached 18.9 percent, the highest recorded in its history. The national average was 13.6 percent. Cali, with 2,013,860 inhabitants, at that time had 182,887 unemployed, while the employment rate was 51.3 percent.
  • Work retention

    Work retention

    In this year, unemployment used to present a two-digit index consecutively in the first five months of the year, this destroyed 775,000 jobs
  • Unemployment in Colombia: in March 2020, the highest in 10 years

    Unemployment in Colombia: in March 2020, the highest in 10 years

    The employed population in Colombia in March 2020 was 20.5 million people, 1.6 million less compared to the same month in 2019.