Cucuta
The National Statistics Department released the new labour market figures for the month of May in the last few hours, reaching 10.3% at the national level.
Although the decline was significant across the country, the city of Cúcuta did not experience the same decline, with a minimal decline of 13.7% and ranking fifth, causing concern among analysts.
“For Cúcuta and Norte de Santander, the figures are not good at all, it is simply a statistical effect with a decrease of 0.1% but what you have to look at is what is within these statistics, the specific data, one sees realizes that in addition to having an unemployment rate higher than the national average, it also turns out that of the jobs that exist, the labor informality rate is 60.6%, which generates concern, as does the large percentage of the young population. unemployed that exceeds 20%” Sergio Jiménez, teacher and economist, told Caracol Radio.
The public order crisis that the northern Santander capital is going through has become one of the main factors for the economic decline and the lack of investment by foreign businessmen.
“In the city of Cúcuta there have been several factors such as the escalation of insecurity, the increase in crime, and for this reason businessmen are not being able to engage the number of available personnel, because sales do not react, because the demand for households do not drive metropolitan production of the national and international economy, so foreign investors are seeing that the public order situation does not allow confidence to be generated in the management of the national economy, which prevents the creation of new jobs. of work” concluded Jiménez.
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