Unemployment rises in 16 states in the first quarter of 2023, says IBGE

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The increase in unemployment and the decrease in occupation, simultaneously, resulted in an increase in the unemployment rate in the major regions. Employment Card Publication The unemployment rate in Brazil rose in 16 of the 27 Federation Units in the first quarter of 2023, according to the Continuous Quarterly National Household Sample Survey (PNAD), released this Thursday (18) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). According to the IBGE, the increase in unemployment and the fall in occupation, simultaneously, resulted in the growth of the unemployment rate in the major regions. The states with the highest unemployment rates were Bahia (14.4%), Pernambuco (14.1%) and Amapá (12.2%). At the other end are Rondônia (3.2%), Santa Catarina (3.8%) and Mato Grosso (4.5%). See the list below. Unemployment rate by UF Reproduction/IBGE “After a year in 2022 of recovery in the post-pandemic labor market, in 2023, it seems that the seasonal movement of increased unemployment at the beginning of the year is returning to the pattern of the historical series”, he explains research analyst Alessandra Brito. In social cuts, the unemployment rate was 7.2% for men and 10.8% for women. The division by color or race has results below the national average (8.8%) for whites (6.8%) and above for blacks (11.3%) and browns (10.1%). Unemployment The unemployment rate in the first moving quarter of the year was 8.8%, as shown by the IBGE last month. In relation to the immediately previous quarter, between October and December, the period brings an increase of 0.9 percentage points (7.9%) in the unemployment rate. In the same quarter of 2022, the rate was 11.1%. As a result, the absolute number of unemployed persons increased by 10% against the previous quarter, reaching 9.4 million people. There are 860,000 more people among the number of unemployed people, compared to the last quarter of last year. Compared to the same period of 2022, the decline is 21.1%, or 2.5 million workers. The total number of employed persons had a decrease of 1.6% against the previous quarter, reaching 97.8 million Brazilians. About 1.5 million left the group. In the annual comparison, there was growth of 2.7%. “This movement of retraction of occupation and expansion of demand for work is observed in all the first quarters of the survey, with the exception of the year 2022, which was marked by the post-pandemic recovery”, says Adriana Beringuy, coordinator of Work and Income of the IBGE. “This first quarter result may indicate that the labor market is recovering its seasonality patterns, after two years of atypical movements.” See the highlights of the survey Unemployment rate: 8.8% Unemployed population: 9.4 million people Employed population: 97.8 million Population outside the labor force: 67 million Unemployed population: 3.9 million Employees with a formal contract: 36.7 million Employees without a formal contract: 12.8 million Self-employed workers: 25.2 million Domestic workers: 5.7 million Informal workers: 38.1 million Informality rate: 39% Decline among those without a formal contract with the IBGE, the number of employees with a formal contract in the private sector remained stable in the quarter. So, a good part of the decline in occupation can be attributed to the reduction of workers without a formal contract in the public (-7%) and private (-3.2%) sectors. Sectors such as other services (-4.3%), public administration (-2.4%), agriculture (-2.4%), construction (-2.9%) and commerce (-1.5%) had falls expressive in the total number of workers without a formal contract. In addition, the total number of self-employed workers with CNPJ had a decrease of 8.1% (which represents less 559 thousand people). As a result, the informality rate returned to 39% of the employed population, which is equivalent to 38.1 million informal workers in the country. In the previous quarter, the rate was 38.8%, but it was 40.1% in the same quarter of the previous year. Flourish – visualization/13577753?1142165 Employment levels The IBGE also shows that the percentage of employed persons in the working age population, called employment level, reached 56.1%. This is a decrease of 1 percentage point in relation to the previous quarter (57.2%). In the annual comparison, there is still an increase of 1 pp (55.2%). The contingent outside the workforce was estimated at 67 million people in the first quarter of 2023. The increase was 1.1 million people compared to the previous quarter. In the annual comparison, it rose by more than 1.5 million. According to Beringuy, from the IBGE, the increase in people out of the workforce remained in the latest unemployment releases, but is not related to an increase in the population in the potential workforce or discouragement, which show stability in the quarter and decline in the year. The underutilization rate — percentage of unemployed people, underemployed due to insufficient hours worked and in the potential workforce in relation to the expanded workforce — was estimated at 18.9%. It is an increase of 0.4 percentage points in relation to the previous quarter (18.5%) and a decrease in the annual comparison (23.2%). Income remains stable The usual real income was stable compared to the previous quarter at R$ 2,880. In the year, growth was 7.4%. The mass of usual real income was estimated at R$ 277.2 billion. The result was also stable compared to the previous quarter, but grew 10.8% in the annual comparison. According to the IBGE, the Northeast (R$ 1,979) was the only region with a “statistically significant” rise in income. The other regions remained stable.

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